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...Mombasa shooters used an antiquated Soviet-era SA-7 Strela that missed only because of equipment malfunction or operator error. Shoulder-launched SAMs are efficient and easy to fire and require little instruction; al-Qaeda trainees were taught how to use them in the Afghan camps. The U.S. supplied hundreds of shoulder-fired Stinger missiles to the mujahedin fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan; Washington was so concerned about their potential for trouble afterward that it offered as much as $100,000 per missile to try to buy them back. But shoulder-fired missiles made in Yugoslavia, Pakistan and China slosh...
...official identified the Kuwaiti missile as a "Strela," the old Western code name for the Soviet Union...
...shepherds were told by their GRU directors to collect every piece of metal they could find. The GRU was not interested in warheads as such, but in elements of the guidance system that experts in Moscow were able to use to improve their equivalent missiles. Take the Soviet Strela-2 antiaircraft missile -- it's an exact copy of the American Redeye. Take the SU-15 supersonic fighter, which destroyed the South Korean aircraft (Flight 007). The technology in the SU-15 was stolen abroad...
...capital. When Cuban Premier Fidel Castro visited Mogadishu two months ago, he proposed that Somalia join Ethiopia and Southern Yemen in a federated state-an alliance that would have vastly strengthened Moscow's influence. Somali President Mohammed Siad Barre said no thanks, and complained bitterly about the Soviet Strela (SA-7) missiles that the Ethiopians had begun to receive from Moscow...
Meanwhile, on the Arab side, the Syrians have added new squadrons of advanced Russian-made MiG-23 fighters, and even the Egyptians?despite the loss of Soviet supplies since Cairo-Moscow relations cooled?have managed to get quantities of the highly mobile SA-7 Strela, one of the world's most effective antiaircraft missiles...