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To: Tree of Liberty

06:15 Australia calls for `credible` peacekeeping force in Lebanon (Reuters)
05:47 Report: North Korean missile exploded within 1.5 kilometers of launch (AP)
05:25 State radio: Iran will reject proposed UN resolution on nuclear program (AP)
04:42 Security Council draft resolution on Lebanon seeks cease-fire, peacekeepers (AP)
04:27 Geographers confirm professor accused of espionage visited Iran for work (Haaretz)
03:21 First Venezuelan evacuees return home from Lebanon (Reuters)
03:15 U.S. command confirms it will send 3,700 troops to Baghdad to try to stop violence (AP)


I am looking, too...


689 posted on 07/29/2006 8:16:22 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

N.Korean missile broke up soon after launch - reports
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Taepodong-2 long-range missile test-fired by North Korea on July 5 broke up and fell back to earth just after its launch, making its flight much shorter than previously believed, media reports said on Sunday.

The Japanese government had previously said the Taepodong-2 fell into the Sea of Japan about 640 km from the launch site.

Sources quoted by Kyodo news agency said the missile exploded in mid-air within 1.5 km of the launch site, either in a northeastern region of North Korea or in its territorial waters on the edge of the Sea of Japan.

Experts have said the missile is potentially capable of hitting parts of U.S. territory.

The problem was most likely due to difficulties with the missile's boosters, sources quoted by the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said.

A Japanese government official quoted by the Yomiuri said the new analysis, which will be included in a report to be issued by the government early next month, indicated that North Korea's missile technology was still immature.

"It will likely take a long time for North Korea to launch a Taepodong-2 again," he added.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/7/30/worldupdates/2006-07-30T075034Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-261637-1&sec=Worldupdates


691 posted on 07/29/2006 8:17:53 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Thanks. Haven't found anything on it yet, myself.


714 posted on 07/29/2006 8:38:09 PM PDT by Tree of Liberty (requiescat in pace, President Reagan)
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