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GOTTA SEE THIS -- SATELLITE IMAGING DURING OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM 7/10/02 BREAKING NEWS - The Big Picture: Fires and Rockets of July around the World and Universe ===== ROCKETS OF JULY 2002 ====== In Nizhny Tagil, 800 miles east of Moscow, a Russian-made Smerch 300 mm Multiple Launch Rocket System fires a rocket during an exhibition 7/9/02. Russia's weapons export agency Rosoboron unfortunately continues to offer this and other war technology to Iran. Better get your act together, Ivan. Kourou space base, French Guyana - European rocket Ariane 5 lifts off 7/6/02 with the European communication satellite Stellat-5 and the...

THIRTY-TWO asylum seekers who escaped from the Woomera Detention Centre last week had been on a hunger strike in the Adelaide police watchhouse, their lawyer said. One of the asylum seekers was so depressed he was suicidal and had pulled the skin off his lips and feet, lawyer Claire O'Connor said. However, the Immigration Department said the hunger strike had ended on Friday night. Ms O'Connor, who visited the police watchhouse, said the asylum seekers had been kept in police cells since they were recaptured. Until Friday, they had gone without fresh clothing and toothbrushes and had not been permitted...