Debate urged on U.K. role in missile system

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Debate urged on U.K. role in missile system
By Geoff Ziezulewicz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Monday, November 10, 2008

RAF MILDENHALL, England — Nearly 60 members of Britain’s ruling Labor Party last week called for an open debate on their country’s role in the planned U.S. missile defense system.

Military communications at RAF Menwith Hill and radar at RAF Fylingdales in northern England would be used in the system, along with planned stations in the Czech Republic and Poland.

"We urge the U.K. government to arrange a full debate to allow MPs to scrutinize in public the U.S. Missile Defence deployment plans in the U.K.," the statement reads

Menwith Hill is largely a National Security Agency eavesdropping station run by U.S. Air Force personnel, while Fylingdales is staffed with British military members.

This latest call for debate follows previous entreaties for more discussion of the shield and the U.K.’s place in it.


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