The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency said it is working with Israel on ways of countering rocket attacks. “We have been working with the Israelis as they go through with development of their own indigenous capabilities for that threat,” Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry Obering, head of the agency, told reporters at a missile-defense conference Tuesday in Alabama.
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