Deep in the vast and mostly unpopulated Gobi Desert, China's launch base is quietly awaiting the country's first-ever manned space flight.

在辽阔无际人烟稀少的戈壁滩上，中国发射基地正默默等待着首次载人航天飞行时间的到来。

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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the launch to a crowd in Semnan province, his birthplace and a base for missile launches.

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In other words, there is no segmentation of the community when we launch the base game.

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And now the entire region is threatened because of radical extremists who have taken root in Somalia, taking advantage of what they perceive to be a failing state, to use that as a base to launch attacks, most recently in Uganda.

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There was widespread suspicion that America wanted to use Pakistan as a base to launch some sort of attack on Afghanistan, in pursuit of Osama bin Laden, a Saudi who lives there in exile and is suspected of involvement in the bombing of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7th.

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