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• Pak Instability = Nuke Worries?

  Published: August 26, 2007, 3:33 pm

  Tags: Missiles Make Me Crazy, Pak Of Mixed Nuts

  Pakistan’s military dictator Pervez Musharraf is in trouble. Musharraf’s credibility suffered a severe blow when mobs overturned his attempt to fire the country’s supreme court chief justice. Meanwhile, Pakistani security forces’ fight against terrorists on the Afghan border have cost scores of lives with little

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• Military C-130 Cargo Plane Carrying Three Senators and a Congressman Dodges Missiles in Iraq

  Published: August 31, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Senators, Iraq, Dodge Missiles, Congressman, C 130 Cargo Plane

  carrying lawmakers dodges

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• I was driving down the interstate when...

  Published: August 21, 2007, 7:40 pm

  Tags: Missiles, Balloons

  Funny stuff.A Clockwork Blancmange

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• The Funniest Thing I’ve Heard All Day: Laser Ground-Attack

  Published: September 4, 2007, 10:41 pm

  Tags: Up In The Air, Brainiacs, Missiles Make Me Crazy, Reality Check

  destroying enemy ballistic missiles as they rise off their launch pads, could be deployed against conventional aircraft and even ground targets, according to prime contractor Boeing,” Defense News reports: During a Sep. 4 teleconference, Greg Hyslop, Boeing Airborne Laser vice president and program manager, said the Air Force is

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• The Planes behind the Israeli Nuke Strike

  Published: September 16, 2007, 11:21 pm

  Tags: Up In The Air, Missiles Make Me Crazy

  The U.S.-supplied F-15I “Ra’am” fighters that carried out the alleged September 6 raid to destroy alleged Syrian nuclear cache were bought with raids on such facilities in mind, according to some reports. One of the keys to the bombers’ success? Their APG-70 radars, with ground-mapping capability, plus a whole host of

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• First Syria, then Iran?

  Published: September 18, 2007, 2:23 am

  Tags: Up In The Air, Missiles Make Me Crazy, The Iranians Coming

  Skeptics abound, but evidence has emerged that the Sept. 6 Israeli raid on Syrian target(s) indeed happened. What evidence? Drop tanks from Israeli fighters, discovered in Turkey just over the border with Syria, according to The Canadian Press and others: Turkey on Monday called the discovery on its territory of fuel tanks allegedly dropped by

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• Exhibit #999: Bad ROK Newspaper Headlines

  Published: September 26, 2007, 9:52 pm

  Tags: East Asia, Eurasian Balkans, Igos, Military, Politics, Usa, Wmd, Chosun Daily, Dayr Az Zawr, George W Bush, Missiles, North Korea, Nukes, Sanctions, Syria

  Zilzal surface-to-surface missiles recently shipped from Iran for an attack on Israel. A third is it was a hit on the stockpile of Saddam’s chemical/bio weapons snuck out of Iraq and into Syria for safekeeping before the US invasion of April 2003. But the identity of the target is not the story - for the primary point of the attack was

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• The Ever-Thinning Dollar Defense

  Published: September 30, 2007, 1:56 am

  Tags: East Asia, Military, Usa, Wmd, Asia, Defense, Dprk, Korea, Missile Defense Agency, Missiles, North Korea, Nukes

  gazillions for nuke-tipped missiles, only to present a check for yet more missiles to destroy the first batch, but 70% is not a great record. The $85 million test was a rerun of one that was supposed to have taken place in May but was scrubbed when the target misfired. The test marked the sixth successful downing of a target in 10

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• The Axis of Crazy

  Published: October 1, 2007, 7:50 am

  Tags: East Asia, Military, Usa, Wmd, China Hand, Dayr Az Zwar, Dprk, Kim Jong Il, Korea, Missiles, Moammar Khaddafy, Nukes, Six Party Talks, Stratfor, Syria

  little more than trading missiles in Syria, too. In the end, the Dayr az-Zwar play might have been little more than an opening maneuver in the current round of Six Party talks. alternate frame of change Related PostThe Ever-Thinning Dollar DefenseThat Familiar Smell in SeoulExhibit #999: Bad ROK Newspaper HeadlinesDeja Vu, With Nothing Else

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• Tackle the Taiwan Straits Crisis Now

  Published: October 5, 2007, 2:23 am

  Tags: East Asia, Military, Politics, Usa, Wmd, Chen Shui Bien, China, Congress, Cruise Missiles, Dpp, F 16s, George W Bush, Prc, Roc, Taiwan

  the deployment of cruise missiles because they are “offensive weapons” but it wants to sell Taiwan submarines- which it told Taiwan it could not have for the twenty years prior to 2001 - because they were “offensive weapons.” And of course, the 1,000 missiles that China aims at Taiwan receive no attention….I

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• India tests short-range ballistic missile

  Published: October 5, 2007, 9:24 am

  Tags: World, Ballistic Missiles, India, Missile Tests

  Indian strategic forces have successfully tested a nuclear-capable Agni A-I short-range ballistic missile, India's Defense Ministry said Friday.

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• Ground-Based Missile Defense More Effective than Jack Bauer, Boeing Says

  Published: October 9, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Random Stuff, Boeing, Clips, Military, Missiles, Weapons

  After the X-Wing rocket aficionados, here's some cool and real rocket action: this video shows Boeing's successful test of their Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system. They launched a long-range ballistic missile from Alaska to destroy it minutes later using an interceptor missile from Vandenberg AFB in California. It's the second test of this

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• China Called Threat to World Peace

  Published: October 10, 2007, 5:24 am

  Tags: Australia, China, Japan, Ballistic Missiles, Chen, Defense, Hu Jintao, John Howard, Missiles, National Day, News, Politics, Strait, Taiwan, United Nations, White Paper

  With China's rapid rise and relentless military build-up, the China threat' is no longer confined to confrontation across the Taiwan Strait. In fact, it has already seriously impacted world peace, said...read more

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• US missile fired in Qatar

  Published: October 16, 2007, 10:34 am

  Tags: World, Missiles, Qatar, United States

  Al-Jazeera television is reporting that a Patriot missile was launched accidentally from a US military base in the Gulf state of Qatar, landing in a farm but causing no casualties.

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• Bush Alienates Europe, Russia, and Cuba on the Same Day

  Published: October 24, 2007, 12:50 pm

  Tags: Missiles, Raul Castro, Cuba, Diplomacy, Putin, Dumbassery, Bush

  insisting that the US needs missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic which he then followed with a cliche-ridden promise to blast Cuba in his next speech, warning that the US “will not accept” a Raul Castro-led govt. Like he’s got anything to say about it. Or is this his sledge-hammer way of threatening yet another war?

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