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Fifth Successful Missile Defense Test in the Past Six Months Sends a Clear Message to Iran and North Korea ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan 26, 2007 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Riki Ellison, President of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, (http://www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org) announced that the intercept test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD) was successful off of the coast of Hawaii at the Pacific Missile Range Facility near Kauai. "This intercept once again validates the United States technical and political will to defeat and destroy ballistic missiles from rogue nations such as Iran and North Korea." He informed his 9,000 membership that today's test was another positive step in the development of the system. "This fifth missile defense intercept since June of 2006 builds more and more confidence in our technical and operational capability to defeat ballistic missile attacks. The THAAD missile system is the next layer in our current deployed missile defense systems which are based world-wide that includes the ground-based GBI's, Aegis Sea-Based SM-3 missiles and the ground based Patriot 3 systems. Today's demonstration of the THAAD system will question the investment that both Iran and North Korea are putting into offensive ballistic missiles." "The test marks the first use of the THAAD system in the Pacific Test Range Facility in Hawaii where the system was fully able to extend its range to intercept a single stage SCUD-like target over the Pacific Ocean. The THAAD system provides redundancy as well as a defense shield of lower space and upper atmosphere that has not been defended by the other three deployed systems. Because of this capability, the THAAD system has a much greater area of protection than that of the Patriot 3 system. This system is much needed by our combat commanders around the world for protection for deployed forces, our allies and their cities." "Our government is moving to deploy two THAAD systems which comprise of 48 missiles and two radars and should be deployed in the near future to regions where the threat is highest such as the Persian Gulf, South Korea and Japan." "Today's THAAD intercept success also represents a true-bipartisan effort where Democrat Representative Silvestre Reyes of Texas and Republican Representative Terry Everett of Alabama have both championed this system from conception to where it is today." NOTE TO MEDIA: Call Mike Terrill at 602-885-1955 if you would like to interview Riki Ellison. SOURCE Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
