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“Al - Qaeda May Possess Feared Surface-to-air Missiles”
by Times of Israel   
June 12th, 2013
A French soldier holds the launch tube of an SA-7 surface-to-air missile before its destruction in Timbuktu, northern Mali, on  March 29, 2013. (photo credit: AP/ECPAD, Olivier Debes)
A French soldier holds the launch tube of an SA-7 surface-to-air missile before its destruction in Timbuktu, northern Mali, on March 29, 2013. (photo credit: AP/ECPAD, Olivier Debes)
Training manual on how to use weapon found in Timbuktu; same missile was fired at a plane carrying 271 Israelis from Kenya in 2002.

TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) — The photocopies of the manual lay in heaps on the floor, in stacks that scaled one wall, like Xeroxed, stapled handouts for a class.

Except that the students in this case were al-Qaeda fighters in Mali. And the manual was a detailed guide, with diagrams and photographs, on how to use a weapon that particularly concerns the United States: A surface-to-air missile capable of taking down a commercial airplane.

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