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Thursday, July 06, 2006
TERRORISM: RUSSIAN MPS BACK LAW ALLOWING SPECIAL MILITARY UNITS ABROAD
Moscow, 6 July (AKI) - Russia's parliament unanimously backed amendments to its counter-terrorism law that will allow President Vladimir Putin to dispatch special military units abroad, although he will now need to notify lawmakers of any such individual operation, Interfax news agency reported. The bill was adopted a week after Putin announced Russian secret agents would seek out and destroy the killers of four Russian diplomats in Iraq. Moscow also offered a 10 million dollar reward for information leading to the capture of the militants.
The new anti-terrorism law gives the president the right to send the army as well as special forces abroad to deal with "terrorist activities" against the Russian Federation or Russian citizens. For reasons of national security, the unit size, location and timing of the special anti-terror unit, could be kept secret and tough restrictions may be imposed on media coverage of such counter-terror operations.
Russia was shocked by the brutal killings of its diplomats and called on the coalition forces occupying Iraq to provide better security for diplomatic mission staff working there. On 28 June, Russia's upper house, the State Duma, passed a statement saying that the occupying countries were to be blamed for the diplomat killings.
Al-Qaeda linked insurgents announced on 26 June they had executed their four Russian captives after Moscow failed to heed a 48-hour ultimatum to pull out of Chechnya and free Muslim prisoners. Muslim separatists in Muslim-majority Chechnya have been fighting a guerrilla war against the Russian authorities since the early 1990s.
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N. Korea: Taepodong-2 pointed at waters near Hawaii: report (direct provocation)
Kyodo News ^ | 07/07/06
Posted on 07/06/2006 5:06:10 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Taepodong-2 pointed at waters near Hawaii: report
(Kyodo) _ The Taepodong-2 long-range missile recently test-fired by North Korea was pointed at waters near Hawaii, the Sankei Shimbun reported Friday in its online edition.
Citing government sources in Japan and the United States, the report said Japan's Defense Agency and the U.S. military reached the conclusion after analyzing the missile's path from data collected by Aegis-equipped destroyers and RC-135S electronic reconnaissance aircraft.
The missile was test-fired from its launching site in Musudanri in northeast North Korea early Wednesday local time before landing into the Sea of Japan about several hundred kilometers away.
The authorities decided that the missile was pointed at Hawaii from the angle of its nose cone immediately after the launch and the altitude it has reached, the report said.
The distance between North Korea and Hawaii is about 7,000 kikometers. While Taepodong-2 was widely believed to have the firing range of 3,500-6,000 km, its actual range can be longer, the report said.
It is not clear why North Korea targeted areas near Hawaii, but the sources believe North either wanted to show that the missile's firing range includes the United States, or because Hawaii is home to the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, or because the missile could mistakenly hit a land area if fired toward Alaska, the report said.