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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (155992)	12/11/2002 1:18:44 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1576567

Scud Missiles Heading to Yemen SAN'A, Yemen (Dec. 11) - The United States and Yemen faced off Wednesday as American naval forces held a missile shipment seized in the Arabian Sea, then released it at the demand of the Yemeni government. Forces from the amphibious assault ship USS Nassau had been aboard the detained vessel since Tuesday awaiting orders on what to do with it and the weapons, Pentagon officials said. The United States released the vessel and its cargo of North Korean-made Scud missiles after high-level consultations between the two countries, officials said. ``There is no clear authority to seize the shipment ... the merchant vessel is being released,'' White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told a press conference. U.S. officials had said the shipment of missiles and missile parts violated an agreement Yemen made with the United States not to buy such equipment from North Korea, which Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has called the worst missile proliferator in the world. A Yemeni official told The Associated Press in San'a that Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Kerbi summoned U.S. Ambassador Edmund J. Hull to protest the seizure and ask for the return of the equipment, which was planned for ``defensive purposes.'' The Spanish military stopped the ship Monday, sailing without a flag designating its country of origin but with what appeared to be a North Korean crew. The move came after intelligence officials watched the vessel for weeks as part of an interdiction operation that is part of the U.S.-led war on terrorism. 12/11/02 12:58 EST Copyright 2002 The Associated Press.

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