UPDATE 2-Algerian troops find huge arms cache on Libya border

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Reuters

ALGIERS, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Algerian troops discovered a huge arms cache near the border with Libya, including hundreds of surface-to-air missiles, rockets and landmines, an Algerian security source said on Thursday.

"It is an arsenal of war," the source, who asked not to be named, told Reuters, adding that it likely belonged to militants.

Algeria is worried about violence spilling over from neighbouring Libya, where a fragile central government is struggling to contain militias and Islamist militants operating in its lawless southern desert.

The source said the cache was found in Illizi in southern Algeria, about 200 km (125 miles) from the Amenas gas plant, which Libyan-based Islamist militants attacked in January, killing nearly 40 foreign contractors.

The weapons included 100 anti-aircraft missiles, more than 500 MANPAD shoulder-launched rockets often used against low flying aircraft like helicopters, and hundreds of rocket launchers, rifles, landmines and rocket-propelled grenades, the source added.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/24/algeria-security-idUSL5N0IE3OB20131024

[Fantastic Anarchist]

1. This is scary.

I have an uncle in Algeria working for a French company.

Hope Libya can stabilize, as well as, Egypt and Syria.

[DallasNE]

2. What Is The Country Of Origin For These Weapons

And is there any way to trace the transit of these weapons, i.e., did they transit through Iran.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Most likely Gaddafi's old stock

which would've had sfa to do with Iran.