The US government calls it the "one of the most lethal" weapons
of its kind -- an advanced, portable missile, designed to knock
planes out of the sky. A variant of it just showed up in Moammar
Gadhafi's army and nobody seems to know how exactly it got
there. But diplomatic cables, unearthed by WikiLeaks, suggest
one potential culprit: the Chavez regime in Venezuela.  Aviation
Week's eagle-eyed reporter David Fulghum spotted a Russian SA-24
Grinch surface-to-air missile mounted on a Libyan army truck in
recent cable news footage. And that's a cause for concern: The
SA-24 is more accurate, longer-flying, and more lethal than
earlier models of surface-to-air missiles. It also has a dual-
band infrared seeker and is more difficult to jam than older
systems.  The missiles "reportedly have counter-countermeasures
that may be difficult for planes with just flares to counter,"
Matthew Schroeder, director of the Federation of American
Scientists' Arms Sales Monitoring Project, tells Wired. "Overall
it's just a much mor