It's a standard practice among Maoist insurgents: make the enemy supply you with their weapons.
The former mujahideen (who are the main trainers and fighting forces of various terrorist organizations) were well-trained in how to use American missles. By us, when we taught them how to use the weapons we supplied them to fight the Soviets in the late 80s.
According to Dangerous Places, as little as seven years ago there were huge stockpiles of American Stinger missiles, etc., for sale -- cheap -- abandoned on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Where do Bin Laden and other terrorists have training grounds/hide-outs? Oh, the Afghanistan-Pakistan border (and Syria).
Whether terrorists bought a missle on the border of Pakistan (and disassembled, smuggled it in, and reassembled it here), or managed to get a missile from the many arms dealers in the US (both legal and illegal, the US being one of the largest arms dealers in the world) there were many means to procure one, and they certainly knew how to use it.
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Date: 2008-05-18 06:54 am (UTC)The former mujahideen (who are the main trainers and fighting forces of various terrorist organizations) were well-trained in how to use American missles. By us, when we taught them how to use the weapons we supplied them to fight the Soviets in the late 80s.
According to Dangerous Places, as little as seven years ago there were huge stockpiles of American Stinger missiles, etc., for sale -- cheap -- abandoned on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Where do Bin Laden and other terrorists have training grounds/hide-outs? Oh, the Afghanistan-Pakistan border (and Syria).
Whether terrorists bought a missle on the border of Pakistan (and disassembled, smuggled it in, and reassembled it here), or managed to get a missile from the many arms dealers in the US (both legal and illegal, the US being one of the largest arms dealers in the world) there were many means to procure one, and they certainly knew how to use it.