“Grab a Couple and Throw ‘Em in the Back.”

I suppose we could title this video ”Arms and the [Fill in the Blank],” with apologies to George Bernard Shaw, depending on your choice of word.

Highlights? One is near the start, when one of the young men in the video, apparently wanting to test the seeker head on a heat-seeking missile, asks the narrator if he has a lighter.

“A lighter?” the narrator answers. “Let me see if I can find one.” 

If this were not real, it might pass for brilliant slacker theater. But it is real.

So what are you looking at? The video in the preceding link shows a recent scene from Libya, in which “brave young American” Kevin Dawes, late of NPR fame (and Salon takedown) and his merry band of uprisers come across several unattended MANPADS tubes out in the desert. I know there is quite a bit to digest here. Watch the video. Read the links. Take your time.

Done? The good news, if there is any, is that no grip stocks or battery/cooling units are to be seen in the video. This means that notwithstanding the narrator’s worries that someone in the troupe might fire one of these missiles as the group wanders about, and roast part of the gang, this was technically impossible. But it does point back to a point that several organizations, and coverage in the NYT, have been making for many, many months: Untold numbers of heat-seeking, shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles have slipped from state custody in Libya, and this poses risks to aviation security.

Want more information on unsecured MANPADS in Libya? Watch the video to see just what stock language like “loose weapons” can mean.

Then try this. Or this. Or this. 

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