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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 Scoville Fellow 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missile Watch: Somalia</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/07/missile-watch-somalia.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of its on-going efforts to track and call attention to the illicit trade in shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles, the FAS is launching a new e-newsletter called “Missile Watch.” Subscribers will receive periodic updates on the black market trade in shoulder-fired missiles, stockpiling and use of these missiles by non-state groups, and related topics. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NPT 40 Years Later and Beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Godsberg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Proliferation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 1, 1968 the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was opened for signature, codifying for the first time a legally binding obligation to achieve nuclear disarmament. This year marks the 40th anniversary of this historic arms control treaty, to which every state in the United Nations except three has been a [...]]]></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 Belarusian [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Report Assesses Efforts to Combat the Terrorist Threat from Shoulder-fired Missiles</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/06/new_report_assesses_efforts_to.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/06/new_report_assesses_efforts_to.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a report released this week by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), FAS analyst Matt Schroeder provides an unprecedented look at global efforts to counter the terrorist threat from Man-portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS). The report, which appears as an appendix in this year&#8217;s edition of the SIPRI Yearbook, goes beyond mainstream media [...]]]></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>Fresh Perspectives on Pressing Small Arms Issues</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/04/fresh_perspectives_on_pressing.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/04/fresh_perspectives_on_pressing.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest issue of the Federation of American Scientists&#8217; Public Interest Report, analysts from three continents provide new insights into arms trafficking in Africa, Venezuela&#8217;s small arms build-up, and the UN Small Arms Review Conference.  Links to these articles, along with an issue overview by FAS analyst Matt Schroeder and a summary of [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/01/somalia_dont_forget_about_the_.php#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2006/11/arms_to_somalia_dj_vu.php#comments</comments>
		<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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