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Lula: fighters to defend Brazil from the plague of drug

Brasilia, Brazil - On the basis of a new bill, Brazilian Air Force will be able to shoot down aircraft employed for drug traffic

Lula's Government is firmly willing to stop drug traffic performed in his country by the resort to aircraft. For such purpose, Brazilian Government would have produced a bill aimed to regulate the possibility for resorting to the deployment of Brazilian Air Force to intercept and shoot down aircraft employed for such aim. USA's Government, which had already supported a similar point of view by other...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 101327
Rome, Italy, 08/05/2004 13:24
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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