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We can strike US: North Korea
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Jul 30, 2003 16:54 PDT
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We can strike US: North Korea
North Korea has warned the US it can strike American targets anywhere
in the world if it is provoked. France's Agence France Presse news
agency said the statement was made by a senior North Korean foreign
ministry official in the capital Pyongyang. "In case there is a
self-defensive measure, the attack can be taken to all military
personnel and all military commands of the United States in the world,"
the official, Ri Kwang Hyok, told AFP.
Pilots filmed Shuttle tragedy
Two Dutch air force pilots who were in Texas for helicopter training by
the US army have handed Nasa a video they took of the space shuttle
Columbia as it disintegrated. "This camera is more powerful than others"
that have footage of the shuttle, a spokesman at the Fort Hood US army
base said. "It has the exact time, down to the second, along with the
direction the camera is looking and exact location of the army aircraft.
The Dutch pilots' Apache helicopter was at about 100ft when the pilots
filmed the footage on February 1.
US special forces `already in Iraq'
US special forces are said to be already operating in Iraq, hunting for
weapons sites, establishing a communications network and seeking
potential defectors. Two Special Operations Task Forces have been in and
out of Iraq for well over a month, military officials told the
Washington Post. They are laying the groundwork for conventional forces
that could quickly seize large portions of Iraq if President Bush gives
a formal order to go to war.
Iraq has banned missile
Iraq is building a banned missile capable of hitting its neighbours and
banned under UN resolutions, UN experts have found. Chief weapons
inspector Hans Blix must now decide what to do about the violation. The
US believes it amounts to a 'smoking gun' against Iraq but Russia say
more work needs to be done. Russia's deputy foreign minister Yuri
Fedotov said the experts were still conducting research and analysis of
technical issues related to Iraq's al-Samoud missile programme and
inspectors had so far reached no conclusion.
US `will hit Iraq's security service'
US analysts say Saddam Hussein's grip on Iraq would crumble without his
security agencies. The organisations that crush domestic political
dissent and gather foreign intelligence are expected to be a prime
target in any US-led attack. Saddam has given control of these key
agencies to relatives and close associates. His two chief enforcers are
both blood relatives: his younger son Qusai and his cousin, Ali Hassan
al-Majid al-Tikriti.
Times of London - 2-13-2003
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