US SENDS TEAM TO LIBYA TO SAVE PLANES FROM MISSING MISSILE ATTACK
October 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SENIOR US state department official has confirmed that America is sending 50 specialist contractors to Libya to track down an estimated stockpile of 20,000 Man-Portable Air Defence Systems (MANPADS) hidden in this vast desert country. Assistant secretary of state Andrew Shapiro said Washington was "very concerned about the threat...posed" to "civil aviation" by MANPADS missiles.
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A SENIOR US state department official has confirmed that America is sending 50 specialist contractors to Libya to track down an estimated stockpile of 20,000 Man-Portable Air Defence Systems (MANPADS) hidden in this vast desert country. Assistant secretary of state Andrew Shapiro said Washington was "very concerned about the threat...posed" to "civil aviation" by MANPADS missiles.
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