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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Wednesday November 28 6:47 PM ET Feds to Launch Missile Defense Test By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon (news - web sites) plans to conduct a missile defense test Saturday in which an interceptor rocket fired from the central Pacific will attempt to shoot down a mock warhead soaring through space, officials said Wednesday. The test date is scheduled to be announced at a Pentagon news conference Thursday. The test, which is designed to stay within the limits of the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty governing missile defenses, had been scheduled for Oct. 24 but was delayed because of technical problems. President Bush (news - web sites) has said repeatedly that the United States needs an effective defense against long-range ballistic missiles and that the ABM treaty must not be allowed to stand in the way. Administration officials have said the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, while not involving missiles, show the country is vulnerable to unconventional surprise attack and one day this could come from missiles. For now, however, the administration is adhering to the treaty while it attempts to persuade Russia to set it aside as a relic of the Cold War. Bush has said that unless he gets an arrangement with Russia that accommodates his missile defense program, the United States will withdraw from the treaty, which it is permitted to do with six months' notice. Vocal supporters of missile defense have urged the administration to declare the treaty invalid - since one of its two original signatories, the Soviet Union, no longer exists - and move ahead with unlimited testing. Saturday's test, in which a missile interceptor is fired from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands to chase down an intercontinental-range missile carrying a mock nuclear warhead, will be the first since July. That test was successful, although the previous one in July 2000 failed. The missile intercept tests cost about $100 million each. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
