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Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/missing-libya-missiles-find-gaza-border/story?id=14729363
Missing Libya Missiles Find Their Way to Gaza Border
(ABC News) Lama Hasan - Some of the thousands of surface-to-air missiles that have gone missing since the collapse of the Gaddafi regime in Libya have now turned up just miles from the Israeli border. U.S. officials say there were 20,000 Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles in Libya before the uprising, and thousands have disappeared in the looting of Gaddafi's arm caches. According to the Washington Post, many of those Russian-made anti-aircraft weapons are being sold in Egyptian black markets, and so many are available the price has dropped from $10,000 to $4,000.