Taepodong-2 Sabotaged by SOF????

[Team Sergeant]

Sabotage potential

Inside the Ring
Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough


We have no evidence that the U.S. was able to sabotage North Korea's Taepodong-2 missile, which malfunctioned 42 seconds into launch on Tuesday and crashed.

But we do note that special operations forces (SOF) are playing an increasing role, overt and covert, in the world under Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's rule. We also note that one of the reasons that SOF procured the powerful .50- caliber Barrett's sniper rifle was to have the capability to disable ballistic missiles. It's a scenario for missile defense you won't see in any literature from the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency: insert a commando behind the lines, who positions himself within shooting range of the launchpad.

"One of the original reasons for procuring the .50-caliber sniper system was to disable missiles," a SOF source says. "A round pumped in prior to launch, or during to cover the noise, in the right place would cause a catastrophic malfunction."


http://www.gertzfile.com/gertzfile/InsidetheRing.html


(I had nothing to do with this, I was home when the missles launched, really TS)

[Firebeef]

hmmmmmmmmm.

sounds like a synopsis for a new Steven Segal movie. In the end, most of us except a very select few, will ever know. The way it should be.

[Bravo1-3]

That's straight out of a Tom Clancey novel. I believe it's "The Bear and the Dragon".

[moobob]

I believe that in "The Bear and the Dragon" the characters in the book raided the launch facility, disabling the missiles with explosives, and hand grenades as they were about to be or were being launched. I haven't read the book since it came out and I don't remember entirely.

Articles like this bring a smile to my face.