State Dept. admits: Three of four Libyan MANPADS unaccounted for

State Dept. admits: Three of four Libyan MANPADS unaccounted for

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has acknowledged that the lion’s share of Libya’s shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles are gone. Officials said a State Department program to retrieve so-called man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) stolen from Libyan Army arsenals during the revolt in 2011 has been stalled. They said that after initial success in […]