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PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: "Shootdown" is good, especially since it did shoot the satellite down.
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Shuttle Lands; Satellite Shootdown Faces Delay Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven landed safely at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., this morning after a 13-day journey.
Minding Growth 2008
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Shootdown incidents of civil planes by the USA, Israel and Russia should tell you that paranoia rules the roost here over commonsense.
Echoes: 2 pieces of news on Taiwan (and how much was wasted by the HKG ATC detour) Sun Bin 2008
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Shuttle Lands; Satellite Shootdown Faces Delay Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven landed safely at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., this morning after a 13-day journey.
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"Click here to read a 'Happy Shootdown Day' message from John McCain's fellow POWs."
Presidential Candidates Can't Resist Holiday Appeal in E-mails Kaye, Kate 2007
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Shootdown authority was first communicated to NEADS at 10: 31.
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South Vietnam, pre-1975: Shootdown, death and burial of two American pilots,
Walker, Kenneth E. 1964
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With the return of the tapes, Yeltsin would hand over the real-time Soviet military communications of the shootdown requested by Helms, reopening the question about the fate of KAL 007 and its passengers (See [[KAL 007: Timeline of Interception and Shootdown]] for the reconstruction of KAL 007's flight after the attack based on these military communications)
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] BertSchlossberg 2010
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↑ The complete transcript of the orders to destroy KAL 007 are available at Rescue 007: The Shootdown for the combined U.S. electronic intercept and Soviet military communications of the actual shoot-down with photos of key personnel.
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The Soviet Union finally countered the negative publicity with a pilot interview claiming he was a hero, and supposed support from the Soviet people that he was acting to defend thier beloved motherland, etc. The Shootdown from inside KAL 007
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