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Streetdoc270

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Sat Nov-06-04 01:45 PM
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US: More missing weapons

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/06/politics/06weapons.html

ASHINGTON, Nov. 5 - American intelligence agencies have tripled their formal estimate of shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile systems believed to be at large worldwide, since determining that at least 4,000 of the weapons in Iraq's prewar arsenals cannot be accounted for, government officials said Friday.

A new government estimate says a total of 6,000 of the weapons may be outside the control of any government, up from a previous estimate of 2,000, American officials said.
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The Backlash Cometh

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Sat Nov-06-04 01:47 PM
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1. Hell, there's probably an American corporation somewhere still

selling them the weapons, and if not the weapons, the parts they need to assemble them.

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da_chimperor

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Sat Nov-06-04 01:47 PM
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2. This is a suprise. I didn't see this one coming . . .

NOT! Stupid fucking imcompetant chimp and his moronic administration fucking up the world. :grr:

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Streetdoc270

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Sat Nov-06-04 01:50 PM
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3. Noticed they waited untill Nov 5th

to tell anyone...

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Rose Siding

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Sat Nov-06-04 01:50 PM
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4. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=963398&mesg_id=963398

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Streetdoc270

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Sat Nov-06-04 01:57 PM
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5. darn it again!

sorry...

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Sat Nov-06-04 01:57 PM
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6. Not LBN

more than 12 hours old and duplicate
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=963398&mesg_id=963398

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