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February 13th, 2009
9/11 widow apparently on Buffalo flight
Posted: 07:38 AM ET
CLARENCE CENTER, New York (CNN) — Beverly Eckert, a widow of a Sept.
11, 2001 attack victim, was aboard the Continental flight to Buffalo, New York,
that crashed on Thursday night, CNN affiliate WGRZ-TV reported.

Eckert, the widow of Buffalo native Sean Rooney, had been traveling to
Buffalo for a weekend celebration of what would have been her husband’s 58th
birthday, The Buffalo News said. Rooney died in the attack on the World Trade
Center.

The newspaper and WGRZ also reported that Eckert planned to take part in
presenting a scholarship award at Canisius High School that was established in
honor of her late husband.

Eckert co-founded of Voices of September 11, an advocate group for
survivors and 9/11 families.

Continental Connection Flight 3407 crashed late Thursday about 7 miles
northeast of Buffalo Niagara International Airport — killing all 48 passengers
and crew members, and one person on the ground.

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UN chief expresses ‘sorrow’ on fourth anniversary of Hariri murder

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New York, 13 February 2009 - Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Rafiq Hariri

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On the fourth anniversary of the terrorist attack that took the lives of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 others, the Secretary-General shares the sorrow of the Lebanese people over the tragic loss of a man who stood strongly during his life for the independence and sovereignty of Lebanon.


This sad anniversary comes two weeks before the Special Tribunal for Lebanon begins to function on 1 March. The Secretary-General reaffirms the commitment of the United Nations to the Special Tribunal's efforts to uncover the truth, bring those responsible for this horrific crime to justice and end impunity in Lebanon.


The Secretary-General also calls for the full implementation of all Security Council resolutions pertaining to Lebanon.

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BA Plane In City Landing Scare

Breaking News9:19pm UK, Friday February 13, 2009

Passengers and crew members have been evacuated from a British Airways plane after its front undercarriage failed on landing in London.

All of the 67 passengers and five crew are safe after the incident at City Airport involving flight 8456 from Amsterdam.

Fire crews were called to the airport just after 7.40pm when the four-engine Avro RJ 146 aircraft had already been evacuated.

BA said passengers escaped down emergency slides which were deployed as a precaution.

A spokesman for the London Ambulance Service said: "We were called at 7.45pm to reports of an incident at London City Airport.

"We sent six ambulance crews, two single responders in cars, two duty officers and we treated four patients for minor injuries.

"No one was taken to hospital."

A spokeswoman for London City Airport said the plane had damage to the nose wheel but had landed on the runway.

She added: "The 67 passengers were evacuated and we are now waiting for air traffic investigators to arrive."

The airport has been closed and flights are being diverted.

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Lebanon: Thousands mark Hariri's assassination

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Thousands gathered in downtown Beirut's Martyrs' Square Saturday to mark the fourth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination, a traumatic event in the nation's post-civil war history.

Hariri died on Feb. 14, 2005 in a powerful explosion that left a 10-foot crater in a street in downtown Beirut, unleashing massive anti-Syria protests in what became known as the Cedar Revolution.

A United Nations investigation by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon found links between Syria's government and Hariri's assassination, which led to widespread protests and eventually the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon.

On Saturday, somber words uttered from world leaders reaffirmed international commitment to Lebanon's nation-building efforts. The United States pledged additional funds to support the tribunal's efforts to find the masterminds behind Hariri's assassination.

"The United States is confident that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon will bring to justice those responsible for financing, planning, and carrying out the assassination of former Prime Minister Hariri," said United States Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton in a written statement.

"The United States pledges $6 million for the second year of the Tribunal's operations, subject to Congressional approval of the FY09 budget, in addition to the $14 million already contributed," she said.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said the anniversary comes two days before the new Special Tribunal takes over from the Beirut-based International Investigation Commission (IIIC), the legal body which also investigated links to 20 other attacks.

Lebanon was engulfed in a sectarian civil war for 16 years (1975-1991), the longest of its kind in the Middle East, pitting Lebanon's Shiite, Sunni, Druze and Alawite populations against each other.

Saturday's rally will include leaders of the March 14 Alliance, a coalition of anti-Syrian and independent parties who forged the Cedar Revolution, which prompted Syria to withdraw troops from Lebanon.

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Hillary Clinton warns, woos North Korea

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- North Korea's nuclear program is "the most acute challenge to stability in northeast Asia," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday

But, Clinton said in a 45-minute address to the New York-based Asia Society, the Obama administration is prepared to seek a permanent, stable peace with Pyongyang as long as its government pursues disarmament and does not engage in aggression against neighboring South Korea.

"If North Korea is genuinely prepared to completely and verifiably eliminate their nuclear weapons program, the Obama administration will be willing to normalize bilateral relations, replace the peninsula's long-standing armistice agreements with a permanent peace treaty and assist in meeting the energy and other economic needs of the North Korean people," she said.

The United States wants to move forward with the six-party talks, working with China, South Korea, Japan, Russia and North Korea to address North Korea's nuclear program, she said. However, keeping in line with the Obama administration's approach of "engaging" its enemies, Clinton said the United States would consider bilateral contacts with Pyongyang.

Despite the olive branch, Clinton warned Pyongyang "to avoid any provocative action or unhelpful rhetoric toward South Korea."

Tension between Pyongyang and its neighbor South Korea has increased in recent weeks, with North Korea announcing it would scrap peace agreements with the South, warning of a war on the Korean peninsula and threatening to test a missile capable of hitting the western United States.

Clinton also sought to reassure Japan, the top U.S. ally in the region, about its key concern, promising to meet with the families of Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s.

Calling the 50-year-old United States security alliance with Japan "unshakable," Clinton said she will sign an agreement to move 8,000 U.S. troops from Okinawa to the island of Guam.

She delivered a sharp rebuke of the former Bush administration's foreign policy Friday, saying that the U.S. government in recent years had too often acted "reflexively" without "hearing the facts" or "listening to others." The Obama administration's foreign policy will value the opinions of other nations, she said, and the United States will "hold ourselves and others accountable," and acknowledge American contributions to global problems.

The United States can no longer afford to conduct foreign policy strictly on a "country-by-country" basis or by splitting the world into regions, she said. As both a trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific power, she said, America will instead begin to press for stronger bilateral, regional and global cooperation.

Clinton also outlined a sweeping agenda of engagement with Asia, ranging from mutual economic recovery and trade to the prevention of nuclear weapons proliferation and reversing the trend of global warming.

Clinton is scheduled to depart Sunday for her first overseas trip as secretary of state. She is slated to travel to China, Japan, South Korea and Indonesia. The trip represents a departure from a diplomatic tradition under which the first overseas trip by the secretary of state in a new administration is to Europe.

But she said the Obama administration wants to "develop a broader and deeper" relationship with Asia, a region that has felt overlooked by the United States despite its growing global importance.

"It demonstrates clearly that our new administration wants to focus a lot of time and energy in working with Asian partners and all the nations in the Pacific region," she said, "because we know that so much of our future depends upon our relationships there."

Much of Clinton's conversations will be dominated by the global financial meltdown. She said despite the financial crisis, the United States hopes to expand trade with countries in the region.

She called for an improved relationship with China, where she said the United States would shortly renew military-to-military contacts. She will also try to establish closer cooperation on climate change with China, which has surpassed America as the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Todd Stern, her new envoy for climate change, will be accompanying Clinton on the trip.

Officials said Clinton had hoped to name a special envoy for North Korea before leaving for Asia to signal the Obama administration's commitment to addressing North Korea's nuclear program, but that the timing and specifics of the job were still being worked out. Clinton told reporters she hoped to name the envoy soon.

Stephen Bosworth, the dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and a former State Department official, has been offered the job to replace Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill, who is expected to replace Ryan Crocker as U.S. ambassador to Iraq.

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2 hurt in London City Airport crash

LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British Airways jet carrying 67 passengers and five crew members crashed on landing at London City Airport on Friday, injuring two people.

The London Fire Brigade said the British Aerospace Avro RJ100's undercarriage collapsed as the plane landed about 7:40 p.m.

The quad-engine, 100-seat plane -- Flight 8456 -- was arriving from Amsterdam, Netherlands.

London City Airport's sole runway is closed until the damaged aircraft can be cleared.

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Lebanon remembers Hariri killing

Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese have taken to the streets in Beirut for the fourth anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

People waved red and white Lebanese flags and listened to speeches from political leaders amid tight security.

They are also showing support for a UN tribunal into the killing which starts in early March, correspondents say.

Syria has long been suspected of involvement in the massive truck bomb that killed Mr Hariri and 22 others.

Damascus has always denied it had anything to do with the attack.

But such was the public outcry in Lebanon that followed Mr Hariri's death - and pressure internationally - that Syria was forced to pull out its troops after nearly 30 years of military presence.

Minute's silence

The scene in Beirut's main square were reminiscent of the demonstrations that followed Mr Hariri's assassination in 2005, the BBC's Natalia Antelava in Beirut says.
People carried pictures of Mr Hariri, with stickers reading "We won't forget you" on their shoulders.

Pictures of the former prime minister were flashed on giant screens, while a choir sang national songs.

The crowd fell silent at 1300 to mark the exact time Mr Hariri was killed.

Saad Hariri, son of Rafik and leader of Lebanon's pro-Western Sunni parliamentary majority, told our correspondent he was proud that his father's legacy was still able to unite the country.

This year's anniversary holds special significance as it comes two weeks before the UN tribunal in the Hague begins its work to try suspects in the killing, our correspondent says.

No suspects have yet been publicly identified, but those in Saturday's crowd said they hoped the tribunal would provide justice.

"We have come to makes our voices heard," Khaled Omar, 19, told the AFP news agency.

"We want justice and we want the United Nations to watch us today."

June elections

Mr Hariri's convoy was driving along Beirut's seafront when it was struck by a truck bomb.

It was thought his support for a 2004 UN resolution demanding that Syrian and other foreign troops withdraw from Lebanon had been the reason for the attack.

His death led to a wave of political assassinations. More recently though the country has been enjoying a period of rare calm.

Saturday's demonstration is also being seen as a test of voters' mood ahead of legislative elections in June that will pit Saad Hariri's majority against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.

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Satellite collision 'more powerful than China's ASAT test'

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Space weapons are dangerous - but out-of-control, defunct satellites can do just as much damage, if not more.

So says a leading space scientist who has calculated that Tuesday's collision between an Iridium communications satellite and the defunct Soviet-era Cosmos 2251 spacecraft expended a great deal more destructive energy than China's infamous anti-satellite missile test did in January 2007.

In 2003, space debris expert Hugh Lewis and colleagues at the University of Southampton in the UK ran predictions on the debris field that would be created in a hypothetical Iridium satellite break-up owing to a collision with just 1 kilogram of space junk (Acta Astronautica, doi:10.1016/S0094-5765(02)00290-4).

Now he has fed Cosmos 2251's orbital data, mass and velocity into that computer model.

To be completely obliterated, a spacecraft must be hit with an energy of 40 joules for every gram of its mass.

In China's anti-satellite (ASAT) test, a defunct weather satellite called Fengyun-1C was destroyed by a missile that imparted an estimated 350 joules per gram of its mass. (The figure is an estimate because the missile's mass is not known for certain.)

But the Iridium and Cosmos satellites collided at 42,120 kilometres per hour, Lewis calculates, imparting 50,000 joules per gram of their mass.

10,000 tennis balls
The resulting "unprecedented" debris field, says Lewis, is still being analysed by space agencies. But he expects it to create an extra 10,000 tennis-ball-sized debris shards - more than triple the number created in the ASAT test.

"There was more energy here than in the Chinese ASAT test so we'll see more debris," Lewis says.

Nicholas Johnson, chief scientist for orbital debris at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, says the exact amount of debris generated in the collision depends on the geometry of the smashup, which is not yet known.

"If they collided main body to main body, that would create the maximum amount of debris," Johnson told New Scientist. "It is possible that one satellite hit an appendage of the other or only a small portion of the other - think about the different ways that two cars can collide and how that affects the extent of damage."

Further collisions
Worryingly, the new debris will raise the collision risk for other Iridium satellites. That's because the 65 remaining satellites in the Iridium network move in circular orbits that cross each other at the Earth's poles.

"The debris cloud that is forming will create a torus [doughnut] of high-density debris that Iridium satellites will now need to pass through," warns Richard Crowther of the British National Space Centre.

Lewis estimates that the collision risk to other Iridium satellites over the next 30 days has jumped to about 1 in 7000 from the previously quoted chance of 1 in millions.

"The risk is now going to be significantly higher than the background risk," says Lewis.

'Unfortunate but inevitable'
Observers expected a collision sooner or later, given the number of dead and defunct satellites beyond anyone's control in various orbits. Less than 10% of the 18,000 objects monitored in low- and high-Earth orbits are working satellites - the rest are dead craft, spent rocket stages and debris.

"It was unfortunate but inevitable", says Crowther, the UK delegate on the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordinating Committee, an umbrella group of 11 space agencies that presses satellite operators to deploy measures to mitigate debris creation.

Such measures include ensuring end-of-life craft have the capacity to either be de-orbited - burned up in the atmosphere - or have fuel and guidance to reach a safe 'graveyard' orbit beyond the geostationary ring. Without such measures, debris remains in orbit for a long time.

'Critical infrastructure'
"The concern now is the orbital lifetime of the Iridium and Cosmos 2251 debris. It will take many tens of years to decay," Crowther says.

"Given we rely so much on space-based assets for communications, navigation and Earth observation as part of our critical national infrastructure, this is one of the weak links in the chain that needs more attention," Crowther adds.

Lewis agrees: "I think now this has happened, it's much more likely that governments are going to take this issue seriously."

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updated March 23

This should really make you think, I wrote this week:

Quote:

Note that on February 10, 2009 Venus is on the same orbittal position as during the assassinantion of Pim Fortuyn: May 6, 2002 - February 10, 2009 = 2.472 days or 11 * 224.68 = 2.472 days rounded Venus at same orbittal position see related thread: 911 based Phi spiral in Dutch society Only registered users can see links on this forum! Register or Login on forum! keep an eye on the timeline too: Q1 2009 timeline , January - February - March Only registered users can see links on this forum! Register or Login on forum! Oh yes....... and the first innerplanet has arrived at the same orbittal position as during the end of this 911 based Phi spiral: November 14, 2008 - February 10, 2009 = 88 days Mercury 'The Messenger' at same orbittal position again! So Venus and Mercury are at the same orbital positions as during the start and the end of this monitored 911 based Phi spiral. The identified underlying themes are expressed in our reality.

The next inner planet to arrive at the same postion again would be Venus, right?

One would expect related expressions on that day

We talk about June 27, 2009

and here it is already:

Announcement on HD Cube at macrolevel:

personal belongings Pim Fortuyn are to be sold on......June 27, 2009!

14 feb 2009

Persoonlijk bezit Fortuyn geveild

ROTTERDAM - De persoonlijke bezittingen van Pim Fortuyn komen onder de hamer. De spullen van de in 2002 vermoorde politicus worden op 27 juni geveild bij veilinghuis Hessink's in Nijmegen. Dat heeft Hans den Hartog, een van de twee eigenaren van het voormalige woonhuis van Fortuyn in Rotterdam, zaterdag gezegd.

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I want to emphasize again that during upcoming timeframe around March 23, Earth will arrive at same orbital position as during the end of the 9/11 - Madrid spiral ( that was around March 23, 2008 ).

I talk about the same ' geometrical' correlations as identified in relation to this 911 based Phi spiral in Dutch society, only this time it will be Earth on the same orbital position instead of Mercury or Venus.

I think we can learn alot during this timeframe around March 23, 2009

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February 1:

Hyper Dimensional 'inwelling' , starting around 60 degrees North latitude

Redoubt Volcano

60.485 N, 152.742 W
summit elevation 3108 m
stratovolcano

2009 Volcano Unrest
Seismic activity increased markedly at Redoubt volcano between 23-25 January 2009. Tremor became sustained and its amplitude increased. Aviation Color Code was increased to ORANGE.

1989-90 Eruptions
Redoubt volcano woke after 23 years of dormancy, on 14th December 1989. The eruptions destroyed a lava dome and produced pyroclastic flows and lahars. Redoubt erupted explosively over 20 times between 14th December 1989 and 21st April, 1990. The eruption caused economic losses estimated at over $160 million making this the second most costly eruption in U.S. history.

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with the latter date April 21 being Hyper Dimensional Tetrahedron in our perception of time

possible 'outwelling':

nearest HD dates at macrolevel orientation

February 14 for the HD Cube

March 12 for the HD Tetrahedron

and here is the 'outwelling' at HD Cube February 14:

February 14, 2009 -- Updated 0340 GMT

Volcano eruption sparks alert in Colombia

(CNN) -- A volcano near southwest Colombia's border with Ecuador erupted on Saturday, leading the government to issue a "red alert" for the region.

There were not believed to be any fatalities or injuries in the blast, which happened at about 7:10 p.m. ET (12:10 a.m. Sunday GMT), said Carlos Lineras of the Colombia Institute for Geology and Mines.

The institute issued an evacuation order for about 7,000 people living near the Galeras volcano.

The volcano is not in a heavily populated region.

Galeras has erupted several times since it became active again in 1989. The only fatalities were in 1993, when nine people -- all scientists or tourists in or near the volcano's crater -- were killed.

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February 15th, 2009
Strong quake rattles Peru’s northern coast
Posted: 06:41 AM ET
(CNN) — A strong earthquake struck near the coast of northern Peru early Sunday, but there were no reports of damage or injuries, an analyst with the U.S. Geological Survey told CNN.

Jessica Sigala said the 6.2-magnitude quake, which struck about 5 a.m. ET, was felt on land. The quake was measured at a depth of 35.6 kilometers (22 miles).

It was located 70 kilometers (45 miles) south-southwest of Piura, and 160 km (100 miles) northwest of Chiclayo.

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flight 522 refrence: still 'running on autopilot' towards nuclear event

flight 3407 was on autopilot, forbidden in case of icing

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NTSB: Plane rolled violently before crash

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(CNN) -- A commuter airliner that crashed Thursday in upstate New York, killing 50 people, underwent violent pitching and rolling seconds before impact, with passengers experiencing twice the normal force of gravity, a federal investigator said Sunday.

The plane's final 800-foot fall took five seconds, Steve Chealander of the National Transportation Safety Board said.

The aircraft crashed into a home in Clarence Center, New York, near Buffalo, on Thursday night, killing all 49 people aboard. A 61-year-old man in the house died also, but his wife and daughter survived.

Final motions of the aircraft were so drastic that the plane's autopilot automatically disengaged and warnings sounded, Chealander said, citing information from the plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders. Also, a "stick-shaker" device, which noisily vibrates an airplane's controls to warn the pilot of imminent stall, kicked in, he said.

The flight crew of Continental Connection Flight 3407, operated by Colgan Air, discussed "significant" ice buildup on the aircraft's windshield and wings before the crash, and icing has become a focus as a possible cause.

Chealander said the plane's de-icing system was turned on 11 minutes after the flight left Newark, New Jersey, for Buffalo, and remained on for the entire flight. He said the pilots were told before departure from Newark that there was "light to moderate icing" in the Buffalo area but that no other pilots had reported problems with their landings at the Buffalo airport.

"It was really not a bad-weather day, and they chose to launch [from Newark]," Chealander said of the pilot and the first officer.

The plane was on autopilot during its approach to the Buffalo airport, Chealander said. As to questions about whether the autopilot should have been turned off, Chealander said using it even in bad weather situations "is normal."

"You're encouraged to use the autopilot to help you with the workloads of these high intense weather situations that we fly into all the time," he said.

He said the NTSB in the past has recommended to the Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees civil aviation including commercial airlines, that in severe icing conditions, "it might be best to disconnect autopilot so that the pilot might have a better feel" for the aircraft's conditions.

However, severe icing is "not what we saw here," Chealander said, adding that the FAA has no such disengagement rule in effect.

"To say that they should not have been flying on autopilot is not correct," Chealander said.

The pilots' recorded remarks about "significant" icing did not indicate "severe" icing, he said.

The NTSB has said problems for the 74-seat Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 occurred when the pilots lowered the landing gear and tried to set the wing flaps to slow the aircraft for landing.

Offering more details, Chealander said Sunday that the plane's nose pitched up 31 degrees, then down 45 degrees. The aircraft rolled left 46 degrees then right 105 degrees, or past the 90-degree vertical point, he said.

Inside the cabin, he said, conditions went from lower than normal gravitational force to twice the normal force as the plane rocked through the sky.

Chealander said the NTSB's investigation of the crash site indicated that the two propellers on the turboprop aircraft were in place when the crash occurred.

"The airplane hadn't lost anything prior to impact. It came down intact," he said.

Meanwhile, local authorities working to recover remains of the victims said Sunday that a federal team of more than 40 people using some $2.8 million worth of scientific equipment would begin on Monday to help establish positive identification of the victims. But because of the intensity of the crash and a subsequent fire, "whether we can identify everybody or not remains to be seen," Erie County Health Commission Anthony Billittier said.

Authorities had recovered 15 bodies as of Saturday night, but Billittier announced Sunday that numbers of recovered bodies will no longer be released "out of respect for the families."

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updated HD Cube, a NUCLEAR incident:


Unthinkable :

BRITISH and French nuclear submarines which collided deep under the Atlantic could have sunk or released deadly radioactivity, it emerged last night. ( on HD Cube)

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The Royal Navy’s HMS Vanguard and the French Navy’s Le Triomphant are both nuclear powered and were carrying nuke missiles.


Between them they had around 250 sailors on board.


A senior Navy source said: “The potential consequences are unthinkable. It’s very unlikely there would have been a nuclear explosion.


“But a radioactive leak was a possibility. Worse, we could have lost the crew and warheads. That would have been a national disaster.”

The collision is believed to have taken place on February 3 or 4, in mid-Atlantic. Both subs were submerged and on separate missions.

Row
As inquiries began, naval sources said it was a millions-to-one unlucky chance both subs were in the same patch of sea. Warships have sonar gear which locates submarines by sound waves.

But modern anti-sonar technology is so good it is possible neither boat “saw” the other.


A senior military source said: “The lines between London and Paris have been hot.”


The MoD insisted last night there had been no nuclear security breach. But this is the biggest embarrassment to the Navy since Iran captured 15 sailors in 2007. The naval source said: “Crashing a nuclear submarine is as serious as it gets.”


Vanguard is one of Britain’s four V-Class subs forming our Trident nuclear deterrent. Each is armed with 16 ballistic missiles.


She was last night towed into Faslane in Scotland, with dents and scrapes visible on her hull. Triomphant limped to Brest with extensive damage to her sonar dome.

Triomphant has a crew of 101. Vanguard weighs 16,000 tons, is 150 metres long and has a crew of 140.


The MoD said it did not comment on submarine operations.

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North Korea fuels missile rumours

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North Korea has asserted its right to "space development", amid speculation that it plans to launch a missile test.

In state media, it accused countries of trying to block its "peaceful research" and said: "One will come to know later what will be launched."

Experts say "space development" has been used before for a rocket launch.

North Korea denied it was seeking attention, as Hillary Clinton begins a visit to the region as US President Barack Obama's secretary of state.

Speculation that North Korea is preparing to test a long-range missile has persisted for two weeks, following surveillance reports of long objects being moved towards the coast and of Chinese ships vacating the area.

Kim birthday

The latest comments from the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) coincided with official birthday celebrations for Mr Kim, who is thought to have suffered a debilitating stroke last August.

Mr Kim's apparent ill-health has sparked deepening concerns about succession in the reclusive nuclear state.

On his 67th birthday, state media hailed Mr Kim as a "heaven-made commander and an affectionate father who safeguards and illuminates the fate of our nation".

His return to active politics, confirmed by a visiting Chinese diplomat in January, has been accompanied by heightened North Korean bellicosity, analysts said.

Reports citing intelligence from satellite photos have said preparations at the Musudan-ri launch site on the north-east coast are well advanced.

But KCNA said rumours of a planned test launch of the long-range Taepodong-2 missile came from "hostile forces".

"This is a vicious trick to put a brake on the wheel of not only the DPRK's [North Korea's] building of military capability for self-defence but also scientific researches for peaceful purpose," it said.

"Space development is the independent right of the DPRK."

"The DPRK has no need to draw anyone's attention and wants nobody to interfere or meddle in the issue of the Korean peninsula where only the Koreans live."

Nuclear disarmament talks involving the United States, China, Russia, Japan, South Korea and North Korea are currently stalled.

Relations between North and South Korea are at a new low after the North scrapped several peace agreements and the South appointed a hard-line unification minister.

Hillary Clinton, who this week makes her first Asian tour as US secretary of state, urged the communist state to avoid provocation and stop "unhelpful rhetoric" towards South Korea.

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CNN: British, French nuclear submarines 'collide'

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British Royal Navy nuclear submarine was involved in an accident with a French submarine while on operations in the Atlantic Ocean, CNN has learned. Both vessels are understood to have been carrying nuclear warheads at the time and to have suffered damage.

British media reports suggested that the two vessels, HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant, had collided on February 3 or 4. But the UK's Ministry of Defence would not confirm details of the incident.

"It is MOD policy not to comment on submarine operational matters, but we can confirm that the UK's deterrent capability has remained unaffected at all times and there has been no compromise to nuclear safety," a spokesman said. The French Ministry of Defense would not comment on the alleged accident.

Both submarines should have been able to detect the proximity of the other vessel using state-of-the-art sonar technology. Royal Navy Vanguard Class submarines are equipped with collision avoidance radar, according to the Royal Navy Web site.

HMS Vanguard, which was launched in 1992, is one of four submarines which make up the UK's nuclear deterrent. Its firepower includes 16 Trident II D5 missiles which are capable of delivering multiple warheads to targets up to a range of 4,000 nautical miles.

The 150-meter vessel carries a crew of 141 and is powered by a uranium-fueled pressurized water reactor. It can spend weeks at a time underwater on patrol in the North Atlantic when it must "remain completely hidden from the outside world" to maintain the effectiveness of the nuclear deterrent.

But communications with naval commanders and government officials, including the defense secretary and the prime minister, are maintained at all times by a "comprehensive network of communications installations," the Royal Navy Web site said.

The UK's Sun newspaper reported Monday that HMS Vanguard was towed back into its home base at Faslane in Scotland "with dents and scrapes visible on her hull." It is normal procedure for the vessels to be towed into port, according to the Ministry of Defence press office.

Le Triomphant suffered severe damage to its sonar dome, according to the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper. The French vessel was launched in 1994 and carries a crew of 111, according to the GlobalSecurity.org Web site. Its weapons include 16 missiles capable of launching multiple nuclear warheads.

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