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		<title>Missile Watch &#8211; November 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/12/missile-watch-november-2010.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<title>Missile Watch &#8211; June 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<title>Missile Watch &#8211; February 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Missile Watch A publication of the FAS Arms Sales Monitoring Project Vol. 3, Issue 1 February 2010 Editor: Matt Schroeder Contributing Author: Matt Buongiorno Graphics: Alexis Paige Contents: Global Overview Afghanistan: No recent discoveries of shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles in insurgent arms caches Eritrea: UN slaps arms embargo on major missile proliferator Iraq: Fewer public reports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Information on Somali MANPADS</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/07/new_information_on_somali_manp.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest report from the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia contains additional information about the shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles used by Islamic insurgents to shoot down a Belarusian cargo aircraft in March. Below is an excerpt from the UN report: On 23 March 2007, at approximately 1700 hours, an IL-76 cargo plane belonging to Transaviaexport, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video Shows Somali Insurgent with Sophisticated SA-18 Missile</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/06/video_shows_somali_insurgent_w.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, the Washington Post posted an Associated Press story with a video still of a man in civilian clothes holding what appears to be an advanced SA-18 Igla man-portable air defense system (MANPADS).* To date, the only MANPADS reported to be in the arsenals of the Somali insurgents were the less sophisticated SA-7.** The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update: Shoulder-fired Missiles in Somalia</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/05/update_shoulder-fired_missiles.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 20:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article on the resurgence of Islamic rebels in Somalia, Associated Press reporter Chris Tomlinson provides new information on the shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles allegedly supplied to Somali Islamists last year. Tomlinson claims that the Shabab &#8211; the military wing of the Council of Islamic Courts &#8211; received 200 shoulder-fired missiles from Eritrea, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Somalia: Don&#8217;t Forget about the Missiles&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/01/somalia_dont_forget_about_the_.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the war against Islamist fighters drawing to a close, Somalia’s transitional government and its foreign allies now face several Herculean tasks: bringing to heel the warlords and militias that have terrorized the country for fifteen years, winning over the various clans and sub-clans that dominate Somali politics, rebuilding the nation&#8217;s devastated infrastructure, etc, etc, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arms to Somalia: Déjà vu</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2006/11/arms_to_somalia_dj_vu.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest report from the UN group that monitors the arms embargo on Somalia has caused quite a stir, generating extensive news coverage and eliciting vehement denials from governments accused of violating the embargo. But, as underscored by declassified US intelligence documents from the 1990s, such disregard for the embargo is nothing new. The documents, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update: Shoulder-fired Missile Proliferation</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2006/11/update_shoulderfired_missile_p.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been several recent reports of the acquisition and (attempted) use of shoulder-fired missiles by terrorists and insurgents. Below is a quick summary of these reports: El Salvador: Foiled Assassination Attempt The most dramatic of these reports is that of a foiled assassination attempt against Salvadoran President Tony Saca. During a 6 October interview [...]]]></description>
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