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By Jim Miklaszewski, NBC News Chief Pentagon Correspondent
President Bush has personally authorized the U.S. military to launch a surface-to-air missile to destroy a disabled spy satellite that is orbiting</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>Update: U.S. to shoot down spy satellite</title><link>http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/14/666548.aspx#670892</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:38:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:670892</guid><dc:creator>D'Viritell, Lakeland, Florida</dc:creator><description>We all know why they decided to do this, being the world superpower, they were beat at something by China, with their ground-to-space test launch that knocked out their own disabled satelite, which every conspiratist in the Capital thought was a threat to the U.S.'s spy satellite systems.&lt;br&gt;The Government is merely confirming if they could do it to or not, under the guise of disabling the harmful aspects of a lost satellite.</description></item><item><title>Update: U.S. to shoot down spy satellite</title><link>http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/14/666548.aspx#1515715</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:14:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1515715</guid><dc:creator>SkysoldierRecon, Hopkinsville KY</dc:creator><description>This was to show our enemies, present and future, that we do have the capability to shoot sattelites down, as well as ICBM's, short range tactical missles etc. Maybe now they can buy a more reliable carbine, and a pistol with more power to it. Spend some $ on the grunts, will ya? </description></item></channel></rss>