There have already been plenty of reasons to question the US decision to leave their Bengazi consulate entirely unguarded for weeks after the September 11 attack. Apparently rocket launchers are now among them.
The site, which wasn’t particularly well defended to begin with, was apparently used by the British government to store its weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades, after Britain had decided to abandon the city.
Unsurprisingly the consulate, which was subject to considerable looting over the ensuing weeks, wasn’t such a great storage location, and Britain is now reporting that the weapons are “missing” with no clue where they might have gone.
Britain’s decision to flee the city because of soaring violence had already been a major question for the US State Department, in asking why they decided not only to say, but to refuse to increase security at the consulate.
So, why were the Brits storing rpg's in Benghazi? Had that peculiar stunt been going on for very long? Something Tony Blair left behind after his last visit with Qaddafi? The T-man and old Mooey were thick as thieves you know. T'would seem that Cameron gots some 'splainin to do.
There is nothing to worry about. The weapons are probably in the safe hands of the current US/UK Best Buddy (TM) – al Qaeda.
Uh….
They were _attacked_ with RPGs. They didn't _store_ RPGs.
I would think they would have the standard small weapons arsenal, P90s, SA80s, handguns and maybe a few grenades. A drop in the ocean of the looted Ghaddafi arsenals.
It's way of transferring weapons to undesirables whilst maintaining "plausible deniability".
unprotected diplomats / arms cache
stupidity or the plan
Exactly.
For the US and its pals to keep a military presence in any area that has stuff they want to nick or nearby interests to preserve what's the better approach – (a) bring peace and tranquility and let the locals run their own affairs or (b) create havoc, conflict and destruction and send in "humanitarian" forces to keep the pot boiling?
I post: you decide.
The rocket launchers will not be missing much longer. The takes have promised that they will return them one at a time starting as soon as they can get the future king close enough to thank him for his help bringing NATO AKA old colinials powers back to the middle east. Libya has to be one of the dumb plays which probable make it to the fiasco level like Iraq.
Whatever!
So you use NATO to destroy Libya and with all that filth emanating from sarkozy/ the british pm and all those including and that half scalded yankee president has made the country a failed state, and now turned your asses to the wind. abandon the wreck.Russia and China will not let that happen to syria,and that fool edorgan will end up worse than gadaffi.