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ID

OSMP652

Date

27 August 2006

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External Research

CNN

At least 12 people, including children, were killed when a rocket hit a village in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights Saturday, Israeli officials said, in an attack that has raised fears of a major escalation in the long-running conflict.

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Armament Research Services (ARES)

“The Falaq-1 and Falaq-2 comprise a family of unguided surface-to-surface rockets produced in Iran, used by the Iranian military, and offered by Iran for export. The Falaq (also transliterated as ‘Falagh’) family is, like other Iranian solid-fuelled artillery rockets, manufactured by Shahid Bagheri Industrial Group; a subsidiary of the Iranian Aerospace Industries Organization. Falaq-1 and Falaq-2 rockets are launched from similar 240 mm and 333 mm short-tube launchers, respectively.”

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