He is replacing it with a plan that would provide a combined land- and sea-based capability more quickly, focused on shorter range missiles Iran could use to threaten Europe, with the option of expanding later to cover longer range missiles if necessary.

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The new warning says recent attacks have occurred hundreds of miles off the coast, suggesting that pirates are using more "mother ships" -- a practice of using bigger boats with longer range to launch smaller pirate ships from farther out to sea, according to Pentagon officials.

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But many businesses with longer-range projects are holding out to see if the credit is renewed.

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We also know that Saddam Hussein had ballistic missiles with a range longer than the UN had permitted but Blix got, I'm not sure whether it's sixty four or seventy of those destroyed.

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