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| U. S. Intelligence fails to detect Iranian missile launch |
| 2007-02-27 |
| The US military has no evidence to corroborate an Iranian claim that it fired a rocket into space and suspects that the event never happened, a US defense official said Monday. Iranian space officials said Sunday they launched a "sounding rocket" into space for research purposes, reaching an altitude of 150 kilometers (93 miles). They said the rocket did not go into orbit. "We have no indication that that's true," a US defense official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity. "Nothing we've come up with would indicate that's happened." The official said it was highly unlikely that such a space shot would have gone undetected by the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which monitors missile launches worldwide. "Even our training launches are recorded," the official said. "There was nothing on this one." "The intelligence assessments points to that the event didn't happen," the official said. Iran's state television announced what it said was Iran's first successful space launch. "The rocket was carrying material intended for research created by the ministries of science and defense," Mohsen Bahrami, the head of Iran's aerospace research center, told the channel. The Fars news agency quoted Ali Akbar Golrou, deputy head of the center, as saying the "sounding rocket" reached an altitude of 150 kilometers (93 miles) but fell back to earth without going into orbit. Like Saddam's nuclear weapon development? |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #6 Heh heh Flitle Jiting3723, you sound vaguely familiar, you know a LilDhimmi? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-02-27 23:05 |
| #5 It's Iran's NEW & IMPROVED Stealth Rocket. Employing the latest in Harry Potter Cloak of Invisibility (CoI™) technology. Shhhhhhh! Soon agents of the Great Satan will be using it to plant and conceal explosives all of Iran. Don't tell anyone. Oh...go to go! The orderly is coming. I get to watch a movie tonight because I ate all my green jello! |
| Posted by: Flitle Jiting3723 2007-02-27 19:15 |
| #4 The upper atmosphere, #3 john? What makes you think it got that far? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-02-27 19:01 |
| #3 That's what you get with North Korean rocket technology. The thing probably broke up in the upper atmosphere. |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-02-27 17:56 |
| #2 1 min there telling us its just a weather purpose rocket, next its military and weather... and now, it didn't happen. lol probably like there women only beach - not gonna happen |
| Posted by: devilstoenail 2007-02-27 14:17 |
| #1 ...NORAD is damned good at what they do - if they didn't track anything, then something ain't right, and let's face it: the Iranians are very good at telling us about Die Vaporwaffe.. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2007-02-27 13:44 |