[Scan-DC] Anti-Aircraft Missiles Deployed Around Washington

[b_thom@juno.com]

Another link in addition to the Yahoo! story

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62062-2003Feb12.html

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Anti-Aircraft Missiles Deployed Around Washington

By Charles Aldinger
Reuters 
[Reuters? The _Post_ had to get this from a wire service?}
Wednesday, February 12, 2003; 11:05 AM 

The U.S. military has deployed jeep-mounted Stinger anti-aircraft
missiles around the nation's capital in an increased alert against
possible terrorist attack, defense officials said on Wednesday.

The defense officials, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters that
heat-seeking Stinger missiles -- weapons that can be fired from the
shoulder -- had been deployed in mobile "Avenger" systems on jeeps also
carrying firing and guidance units. Each is operated by a two-member
crew.
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