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Thu Aug-14-08 07:27 PM
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21. Poland, U.S. Reach Missile Shield Deal

Source: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0%2C25197%2C24184574-12377%2C00.html

From correspondents in Warsaw | August 15, 2008
WARSAW and Washington have reached a preliminary deal on basing elements of a controversial US missile shield in Poland, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced today.

"We have reached a deal with the United States on the shield," after Washington agreed to meet Poland's key demand for defence aid separate from the anti-missile system, Mr Tusk told Polish news channel TVN.

Washington aims to base 10 interceptor missiles in Poland plus a radar facility in the neighbouring Czech Republic by 2011-2013 to complete a system already in place in the United States, Greenland and Britain.

The United States insists the plan is to ward off potential missile attacks by "rogue states," notably Iran, and is not directed against Russia.

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more at source.....

Notice this is dated for tomorrow...is it tomorrow in Poland..I guess. Could this announcement be considered ratcheting up the Georgian/Russian conflict?

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