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		<title>Missile Watch: Global Update (April &#8211; October 2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/11/missile-watch-global-update-april-october-2009.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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Missile Watch
A publication of the FAS Arms Sales Monitoring Project
Vol. 2, Issue 2
October 2009
Written by Matt Schroeder and Matt Buongiorno

&#160;
Table of Contents:
Honduras/Mexico: Alleged arms trafficker offered to sell &#8220;17 or 18 surface-to-air missiles,&#8221; claims US informant
Kenya: MANPADS threat affects US air travel to Nairobi
Russia: 20 MANPADS seized from militants in North Caucasus region
Sri Lanka: Terrorist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Documents obtained by FAS shed some light on Viktor Bout case, but key questions remain</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/10/documents-obtained-by-fas-shed-some-light-on-viktor-bout-case-but-key-questions-remain.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matt Schroeder
Documents provided to the Federation of American Scientists by the US Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Southern District of New York provide additional details about the case against alleged arms trafficker Viktor Bout, but many important questions remain (publicly) unanswered. Below is a brief summary of these documents and their significance.
Background
Viktor Bout and an alleged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Securing Venezuela’s Arsenals</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/08/securing-venezuela%e2%80%99s-arsenals.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/08/securing-venezuela%e2%80%99s-arsenals.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matt Schroeder 

The recent discovery of Swedish AT-4 anti-tank rockets sold to Venezuela in a Colombian rebel arms cache raises serious questions about Venezuela’s ability to safeguard its arsenal of modern weaponry, including dozens of advanced SA-24 shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles.  Given the potential threat posed by these missiles and other weapons in Venezuela’s rapidly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FAS Obtains Key Report on US Arms Exports</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/07/fas-obtains-key-report-on-us-arms-exports.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/07/fas-obtains-key-report-on-us-arms-exports.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deliveries of arms through the Defense Department’s Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Program decreased by nearly a billion dollars in fiscal year 2008, according to the most recent edition of the Annual Military Assistance Report. The report, which is often referred to as the “Section 655 Report” after the section in the Foreign Assistance Act that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Missile Plot had Little Chance of Success, but ‘Stinger Stings’ are Valuable Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 15:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, the FBI thwarted an alleged terrorist plot to shoot down a military cargo plane with a Stinger missile.  According to a criminal complaint obtained by the New York Times, four men were arrested on charges of conspiring to use “a surface-to-air missile system to destroy military aircraft at the New York Air National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Urges the Senate to Take Up Key Convention on Illicit Arms Trafficking</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/04/obama-urges-the-senate-to-take-up-key-convention-on-illicit-arms-trafficking.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/04/obama-urges-the-senate-to-take-up-key-convention-on-illicit-arms-trafficking.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a press conference in Mexico City yesterday, President Obama urged the Senate to take up the Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials, which is often referred to by its Spanish acronym, CIFTA.
The Convention aims to curtail the illicit international trade in small arms by requiring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missile Watch #4: Global Update (January – March 2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/04/missile-watch-4-global-update-january-%e2%80%93-march-2009.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/04/missile-watch-4-global-update-january-%e2%80%93-march-2009.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Afghanistan
In March, the Sunday Times of London reported on the Taliban’s alleged acquisition of Iranian-supplied SA-14 missiles, which the Afghan insurgent group reportedly wants for a “spectacular” attack on coalition forces. The accusation reportedly came from unidentified “American intelligence sources.” According to the Sunday Times, “…coalition forces only became aware of the presence of SA14s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missile Watch #3: Black Market Missiles Still Common in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/12/missile-watch-3-black-market-missiles-still-common-in-iraq.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite a million dollar buyback program and hundreds of raids on illicit weapons caches, US and Iraqi forces are still finding surface-to-air missiles in insurgent stockpiles.  US military press releases and media reports reveal that, since October 2006, at least 121 such missiles have been recovered, along with 4 additional launchers and various components.  These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missile Watch No. 2: Somalia</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/09/missile-watch-2-somalia.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/09/missile-watch-2-somalia.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN and AFP are reporting that the Shabaab, a militant wing of a Somali insurgent group, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), has threatened to treat “as an enemy combatant” any plane that attempts to land at Mogadishu  Airport.  According to AFP, the threat, which was posted on the Internet, was confirmed by Shabaab leader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FAS Obtains Report on US Arms Exports</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/08/fas-obtains-report-on-us-arms-exports.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the FAS, the Defense Department  has released its contribution to the Fiscal Year 2007 edition of the Annual Military Assistance Report required by Section 655 of the Foreign Assistance Act.
The &#8220;Section 655&#8243; report, as it is known, contains information on five major security [...]]]></description>
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