Yahoo! News (blog) - by Olivier Knox - 15 hours ago
In one of her last acts as America's top diplomat, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hit back hard Wednesday at fierce Republican criticisms over ...
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Among Clinton’s more notable—and
chilling—other comments: Islamist fighters around the region are now
equipped with heavy weapons seized from unsecured Libyan arsenals after
the fall of strongman Moammar Gadhafi. Critics of the NATO-led campaign
to help rebels topple him had warned of the prospect that his arsenals
would fall into extremist hands.
That proliferation is “the source
of one of our biggest threats” in the region, Clinton said. The
American mission in Benghazi was trying to “track down and find and
recover” weapons like missiles that can bring down an airplane, she
said. But there is “no doubt," she added, that the extremists who
carried out a bloody hostage-taking in Algeria, members of Al-Qaida in
the Maghreb (AQIM) in Mali and fighters in Syria all had arms from
Libya.
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I repeat my comment on another article like this: Weapons can be used as long as they can be used, through purchases or taken off the hands of corpses throughout the region. And in some cases weapons can even be repaired. So, even an AK-47 could theoretically still be used by someone 50 years from now in the region.
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