Vast Weapons Stockpile Found in Libyan Desert

Libya munitions
David Sperry / AP

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Missile parts lay in a storage bunker, Oct. 26, 2011. Among the items found were SA-24 missiles, Russian made ground-to-air missiles capable of shooting down a civilian airliner.

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