March 10, 201214 yr From Aviation Week [excerpt] Syria And Hezbollah Have Advanced MissilesMar 9, 2012 By David Fulghum, Robert Wall Washington, London Fears that some of the world’s most sophisticated anti-aircraft weapons that disappeared from government warehouses in Libya would end up in the hands of stateless insurgent are being realized. At least some of the roughly 480 high-performance SA-24 “Grinch” shoulder-launched missiles that disappeared during the Libyan uprising have reappeared in the hands of insurgents on the borders of Israel, say senior Israeli officials. The advanced weapons were smuggled out of Libya to Iran. From there the supply line split, with some weapons going to Syria and finally to the military wing of the Hezbollah organization in Lebanon. Others were smuggled into Egypt and then to Hamas in Gaza. “They are in the Gaza Strip,” an Israeli official tells Aviation Week. “I don’t know in what numbers. They also are in Lebanon.”
March 12, 201214 yr Here is an article from The Telegraph in 2011 talking about this issue. THE TELEGRAPH
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