Lost Cause
It's a wrap!
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It looks like we'll have to take on the whole Middle East. Is this an alarmist news story, or a legitimate sale to another country? Does the word "Scud" make you think of the Iraqui attacks on Israel, and Saudi Arabia? do you think we're over reacting to N. Korea's arms trade? Am I wasting my keyboard keys posting this thread? 
–– A ship carrying a dozen Scud-type missiles from North Korea was intercepted in the Arabian Sea on Tuesday, U.S. officials said. They said the missiles were believed to be headed for Yemen.
The ship was stopped and boarded about 600 miles east of the Horn of Africa, the officials said.
U.S. intelligence had been tracking the vessel closely, said U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The ship contained about a dozen short- to medium-range missiles, similar to the Scud missiles used by Iraq in the Persian Gulf War, the officials said. It also contained missile parts.
The ship was stopped and boarded by a patrol boat in the region.
The patrol boat was not a U.S. ship, but that of another nation, a U.S. official said. However, a U.S. team rushed to the scene to participate in the search, the official said.
The ship "had another flag, but it was a North Korea ship," the official said.
The ship was held in the area while the search continued.
Officials said the shipment did not appear to be headed for Iraq.
Yemen has been identified by the United States as a nation that has harbored terrorists, although its government has been an ally of the United States in the war against global terrorism. Yemen's port of Aden was the site of the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole by terrorists, which killed 17 sailors.
Yemeni officials contacted late Tuesday said they had no information concerning the ship, its contents or its boarding by international forces.
The boarding of the ship occurred as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was traveling in the area.
–– A ship carrying a dozen Scud-type missiles from North Korea was intercepted in the Arabian Sea on Tuesday, U.S. officials said. They said the missiles were believed to be headed for Yemen.
The ship was stopped and boarded about 600 miles east of the Horn of Africa, the officials said.
U.S. intelligence had been tracking the vessel closely, said U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The ship contained about a dozen short- to medium-range missiles, similar to the Scud missiles used by Iraq in the Persian Gulf War, the officials said. It also contained missile parts.
The ship was stopped and boarded by a patrol boat in the region.
The patrol boat was not a U.S. ship, but that of another nation, a U.S. official said. However, a U.S. team rushed to the scene to participate in the search, the official said.
The ship "had another flag, but it was a North Korea ship," the official said.
The ship was held in the area while the search continued.
Officials said the shipment did not appear to be headed for Iraq.
Yemen has been identified by the United States as a nation that has harbored terrorists, although its government has been an ally of the United States in the war against global terrorism. Yemen's port of Aden was the site of the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole by terrorists, which killed 17 sailors.
Yemeni officials contacted late Tuesday said they had no information concerning the ship, its contents or its boarding by international forces.
The boarding of the ship occurred as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was traveling in the area.
