Every one insists they’re “inert” (even though a bomb sniffing dog found them), and were just meant to train the Lebanese army. Sure. Which is why they’re on a civilian aircraft.
Two dummy US-made training missiles en route from Lebanon to the United States on a civil flight via Serbia, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday.
The “captive air training missiles” did not have a warhead, rocket or guidance system, said one source who spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they were headed to the United States after being used to train the Lebanese Armed Forces…
The two inert missiles were discovered in wooden crates by bomb-sniffing dogs at Belgrade airport on Saturday, a source at the Serbian prosecutor’s office said. They arrived from Beirut on Air Serbia and were due to be put on another flight to go to Portland, Oregon.
“Experts are determining whether the missiles were equipped with live or training warheads … They were packed in proper transportation crates and supplied with paperwork,” the Serbian source said.
However, the first source familiar with the matter described the discovery of the two inert missiles as a “false positive” and said they were never equipped with a warhead.
The Lebanese army also said the Hellfire missiles were training models, without any explosives in them, and that it was returning to the manufacturer.
Nothing to see here, folks, now just move along…
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