الاثنين، 26 سبتمبر 2011

The Daily Telegraph: the Iranian Revolutionary Guard stole surface-to-air missiles smuggled from Libya and a

Newspaper reported the Daily Telegraph) that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard stole dozens of advanced Russian surface-to-air missiles from Libya and smuggled across the border into Sudan.

The British newspaper said Friday, quoting Western intelligence reports, that Corps (KPC) units (Jerusalem) went to Libya from its base in southern Sudan on the orders of the leaders of the Revolutionary Guard in Iran, exploited the chaos in Libya in the wake of the collapse of the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to seize large quantities of sophisticated weapons.



It added that sophisticated weapons including surface-to-air missiles a Russian-made (SA-24) Moscow sold to a system of Gaddafi in 2004, is able to shoot down planes flying at an altitude of 11 thousand feet.



She pointed out that these missiles are similar in terms of capacity-missiles (Stinger American) used by Afghan militants backed by the United States in their war against Soviet troops in the 1980s, and weapons used by al-Qaeda network in the failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli passenger plane after it took off from Mombasa airport in Kenya in the year 2002
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