Q: How did that conversation go, and when...END of the 1990s? 2000? 2001, too? ...Was it, like, "Yo, Mujahadeen amigos...please, please, please, PLEASE give us back our 600+ missiles...pretty please?!" ?? Hey, Stupids (our "protectors") ! Did the 600+ missiles -you lost- have anything to do with OUR current near complete LOSS of privacy?? -- The last Stingers were supplied in 1988 and after the 1989 Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the U.S. attempted to buy back the Stinger missiles, with a $55 million program launched in 1990 to buy back around 300 missiles (US$183K each). The U.S. government collected most of the Stingers it had delivered, but by 1996 around 600 were unaccounted for and some found their way into Croatia, Iran, Sri Lanka, Qatar and North Korea. According to the CIA, already in August 1988 the U.S. had demanded from Qatar the return of Stinger missiles
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 05:22:02 +0000