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CNN

• Senator: Protect airliners from shoulder-fired missiles

Federation of American Scientists

• The Real Terrorist Missile Threat, And What Can Be Done About It
• FAS Arms Sales Monitoring Project Issue Brief on MANPADS Proliferation

The Lexington Institute

• MANPADS: Scale and Nature of the Threat
• After Iraq: Risks To U.S. Airliners Rising Fast

CATO Institute

• Flying the Unfriendly Skies: The Threat to Commercial Aircraft

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Official Website

• The Issues - Homeland Security

U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) Official Website

• Senators: Missing Iraqi Shoulder-Fired Missiles Underscore Need to Equip US Planes With Anti-Missile Technology
• Lawmakers to Seek $30 Million to Equip Airliners From Wartime Stinger Attack

Congressman John L. Mica (R-FL) Official Website

• Commercial Aviation MANPADS Defense Act

U.S. Dept of Homeland Security Industry Forum

• Fact Sheet:  U.S. Department of Homeland Security Programs Countering Missile Threats to Commercial Aircraft
• Briefing on Counter-Man-Portable Air Defense Systems, presented at DHS Industry Forum March 2004

U.S. Department of State

• Fact Sheet - The MANPADS Menace: Combating the Threat to Global Aviation from Man-Portable Air Defense Systems

Coalition of Airline Pilots Association

• CAPA's Issues

Passenger-Cargo Security Group

• MANPADS

Strategic Security Blog, a project of the Federation of American Scientists

• Iraq's Looted Arms Depots: What the GAO Didn't Mention (04/11/07)
• New Information on Somali MANPADS

ABC News

• Nightmare in Libya: 20,000 Surface-to-Air Missiles Missing (2011)
• Taking Terror Threat Out of Flying (2008)

CTV

• Reports say Chinese-made weapons used by Taliban

CBS News

• Shoulder-Fired Missiles A Serious Threat To Planes (02/15/07)

United Press International

• Anti-missile test stirs Aussie interest (01/19/07)

Flight International

• Northrop Grumman in talks with unspecified airline to test anti-missile defences on passenger aircraft (01/17/07)
• Somalia MANPADS Scare Forces FAA Height Ban (2007)
• Shield in the Sky (08/30/05)

San Francisco Chronicle

• Plane with U.S. Officials was Fired at (04/08/06)

Flight International Magazine

Aviation Week & Space Technology

• DHL/EAT Crew Lands A300 With No Hydraulics After Being Hit By Missile (12/07/03)

National Defense Magazine

• Man-Portable Missiles Imperil Both Military, Civilian Aircraft (08/03)
• Anti-Missile Program for Airliners on a Fast Track (12/03)

Telegraph

• Taliban in first heat-seeking missile attack

The Travel Insider

• SAMs - The Unresolved Air Security Threat (12/06/02)