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WASHINGTON – There remains frustration in trying to track down up to 20,000 missing shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles taken out of the bunkers during the waning days of the regime of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. Now that they have disappeared, and despite a U.S. program worth tens of millions of dollars to try and relocate them, only 5,000 have been turned in. Concern is that many of them were acquired by al-Qaida elements in Libya and surrounding countries. Increasingly, intelligence sources also are seeing these weapons wind up in the hands of...

bout 6000 shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles are outside the control of any government worldwide, according to The New York Times. The number is triple the previous estimate of 2000 missing arms, and about 4000 of the weapons are said to be from Iraq's pre-war arsenals. The new estimate was discussed at a closed Defence Intelligence Agency conference in Alabama last week on the threat posed by the portable missiles to civil aviation, the newspaper said. Western intelligence and security officials have warned in recent months about the danger of attack by al-Qaeda operatives on civilian planes, similar to the 2002 near-hit...

http://www.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200310/200310300216.html A Test Launch of Shin-Goong S. Korea: Locally Developed Shoulder-fired Missile Successfully Tested S. Korea developed its own shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile, Shin-goong, which passed the test in flying colors. Mass production will start next year. The missile has a maximum range of 7,000m, and can reach up to 3,500m in height. In seven different tests, it showed hit ratio of over 90%. It is also equipped with two-color detector, which can guide the missile away from flares dropped to fool it. Shin-goong detonates itself when it reaches within 1.5m of the target aircraft. The explosion produces 720 fragments who...