MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) – Mayors of 15 Czech cities are to ask U.S. president-elect Barack Obama to abandon the Bush administration’s plans to place a missile defense radar in the Czech Republic, a member of the European parliament said on Monday.
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Czech mayors oppose U.S. missile shield plans
Posted by seumasach on November 10, 2008
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British MPs call for debate on U.S. missile shield
Posted by seumasach on November 6, 2008
6th November, 2008
A growing number of European politicians are voicing fears over the U.S. deployment of a missile shield all across the continent. More than 50 British MPs have called for a public debate into an issue which many fear could result in a new global arms race.
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Planned US Missile Defense in Eastern Europe Beset by Delays
Posted by seumasach on November 1, 2008
31st October, 2008
US General Henry Obering is “very concerned” this week as Polish lawmakers still haven’t ratified August’s deal to host a US interceptor missile base in Northern Poland. The base, ostensibly aimed at preventing Iranian missile strikes but being built well outside of the range of Iran’s missile arsenal, will not see its first interceptor missile “in the ground in Poland until 2012″ according to the General. Even then, the base’s full complement of 10 missiles won’t be online until 2013 or 2014 even if Poland ratifies the deal by year’s end.
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Missile Defense: Washington and Poland just moved the World closer to War
Posted by seumasach on August 15, 2008
F. William Engdahl
15th August, 2008
The signing on August 14 of an agreement between the governments of the United States and Poland to deploy on Polish soil US ‘interceptor missiles’ is the most dangerous move towards nuclear war the world has seen since the 1962 Cuba Missile crisis. Far from a defensive move to protect European NATO states from a Russian nuclear attack, as military strategists have pointed out, the US missiles in Poland pose a total existential threat to the future existence of the Russian nation. The Russian Government has repeatedly warned of this since US plans were first unveiled in early 2007. Now, despite repeated diplomatic attempts by Russia to come to an agreement with Washington, the Bush Administration, in the wake of a humiliating US defeat in Georgia, has pressured the Government of Poland to finally sign the pact. The consequences could be unthinkable for Europe and the planet.
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1,500 citizens oppose Czech-US ABM deal in downtown Prague
Posted by seumasach on July 9, 2008
8th July,
2008
PRAGUE, July 8 (Itar-Tass) — About 1,500 citizens are protesting against the Czech-U.S. agreement on the deployment of a missile defense radar station on the Czech territory in downtown Prague.
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