Empty boxes of looted anti-tank mines at a warehouse weapons storage facility outside Benghazi.
There were 12 such warehouses filled with Belgian-produced plastic PRBM mines, a particularly nasty mine as it is made mostly from plastic and thus hard to discover with metal detectors. It can also be fitted with an anti-lifting device that makes the mine explode as soon as someone tries to extract it from the ground. Local fishermen were looting the mines to take out the explosives in order to make bombs for fishing. On the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Qaddafi forces recently laid at least two minefields, containing both anti-tank and anti-vehicle mines. One of the mine fields was detected after an electricity utility truck ran over an anti-personnel mine.
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CASSANDRAAA
2:34 PM ET
April 9, 2011
Weapons in Libya
Seeing this pictures reminds me of something I read a number of years ago. That Khaddafi had bought a huge quantity of Semtex plastic explosive from the Czechs. I've seen the quantity reported as anywhere from 700 to 2,000 tons. TONS! And that was before the Czechs were prevailed upon by Western countries to add a chemical to make it detectable.
Khaddafi claimed to be buying it for road building!
WENDI
2:01 AM ET
April 11, 2011
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I think that the peple must stop to fight with each other. You can read purchase essay about all consequences of this events.
BATAMI
5:22 AM ET
April 11, 2011
Weapons danger
There were also reports of Qadaffi having mustard gas shells. Where are those? And while the SA-7 Strellas are a big danger, it's likely that some of those MANPADS you saw were the more modern and dangerous Iglas.
CHRISTURNER
2:42 PM ET
April 25, 2011
Bombs
I would be scared to take a photograph that close to a bomb!
Wonderful photo essay, thanks very much.