Where are Libya’s missing missiles?

Grimly suited for terrorist attacks, thousands of small, powerful, shoulder-fired missiles, each capable of blowing the wing off an airliner, have gone missing from Moammar Gadhafi’s arsenals.

In the shambolic chaos of post-war Libya, looted missile stockpiles represent an unintended, but potentially catastrophic, consequence of the conflict.

Even a handful of the missiles would be worth a small fortune on black arms markets. High stacks of empty cases that once housed hundreds of modern, sophisticated, Russian-made missiles have been found piled high in Libyan arms warehouses. But the missiles are missing.

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