and may God comfort his family.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=china
http://www.newsmax.com/hottopics/China!Taiwan.shtml
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"Chinese [Successfully] Test Anti-Satellite Weapon"
Aviation Week & Space Technology ^ | 1-17-07 | Craig Covault
Posted on 01/17/2007 11:17:58 PM PST by ganeshpuri89
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "U. S. intelligence agencies believe China performed a successful anti-satellite (asat) weapons test at more than 500 mi. altitude Jan. 11 destroying an aging Chinese weather satellite target with a kinetic kill vehicle launched on board a ballistic missile.
The Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, NASA and other government organizations have a full court press underway to obtain data on the alleged test, Aviation Week & Space Technology will report in its Jan. 22 issue.
If the test is verified it will signify a major new Chinese military capability.
Neither the Office of the U. S. Secretary of Defense nor Air Force Space Command would comment on the attack, which followed by several months the alleged illumination of a U. S. military spacecraft by a Chinese ground based laser."