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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>
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		<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>
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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>New Information on Iraqi Missile Cache</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/05/new_information_on_iraqi_missi.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 16:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FAS has acquired, via a Freedom of Information Act request, additional information about a cache of &#8220;22 surface-to-air missiles&#8221; discovered by Coalition Forces north of Baghdad on 4 January 2006.  According to the responsive document &#8211; a redacted entry from a database maintained by Multi-National Corps-Iraq (MNC-I) &#8211;  the missiles were SA-13 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq&#8217;s Looted Arms Depots: What the GAO Didn&#8217;t Mention</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/04/iraqs_looted_arms_depots_what.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In a recent report, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) attributes the looting of Iraq&#8217;s arms depots to the &#8220;ovewhelming size and number&#8221; of these depots and “prewar planning priorities and certain assumptions that proved to be invalid.&#8221;  The report finds that the US military “did not adequately secure these [conventional munitions storage] sites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions about Iranian Weapons in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/02/questions_about_iranian_weapon.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At an unusual press briefing on Monday, U.S. military officials provided the first physical evidence of Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi extremist groups.  The display, which the New York Times called “extraordinary,” consisted of explosively formed penetrators, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, and a shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile reportedly found in Iraq and bearing Iranian markings. Notably, [...]]]></description>
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