Russia says it accepts US denials over supplying Stinger missiles to Syrian rebels but claimed it was co-ordinating weapon supplies and providing logistical support, RIA Novosti reports.
If senior tribal sheikhs and local strongmen along with their stocks of Stinger missiles and anti-tank guns lose faith in him, his days are numbered.On the other hand, Mr Saleh has weathered catastrophic economic and political shocks before.
They have also fired Stinger missiles at the helicopter of the president's son, Colonel Ahmed Saleh, the commander of the Republican Guard.
Mr Malik said that arms, including Stinger missiles, are being brought into the country by "Anti-Pakistan elements".President Barack Obama has made Pakistan the centre-piece of a new counter-terrorism strategy which he unveiled last week.
Here too the taxmen can expect to lose.The real Europe-wide stinger, though, is the de Lasteyrie case, brought by a Frenchman who moved to Belgium.
In the 1980s Soviet aircraft were shot down with American-made Stinger missiles; today NATO has mastery of the skies.
True or not, the stinger is certainly smarting more than the stung.
So might much of the Taliban's armoury small arms, rocket-propelled grenades, 2,000-5,000 mortand and Stinger missiles that are deadly against helicopters.2.2
Many species of bees and wasps have two poison glands, one gland secreting a toxin in which formic acid is one recognized constituent, and the other secreting an alkaline neurotoxin; acting independently, each toxin is rather mild, but when they are injected together through the stinger, the combination has strong irritating properties.
The most obvious is the venom-conducting stinger.
Before giving prey to pups that were still young, helpers usually killed the prey or disabled it, such as by removing the stinger of a scorpion.
