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Russia threatens to target
US missile shield
Harry de Quetteville and Isambard Wilkinson
London
Telegraph
Tuesday December 18, 2007
Russia has threatened to target two proposed American bases in
Europe with its nuclear missiles if the Pentagon pressed ahead
with its plans for a missile defence shield.
In an escalation of the Cold War-style threats favoured by President
Vladimir Putin, the general in charge of Russia's ballistic arsenal
said that he could target the bases in Poland and the Czech Republic
that will host the missile-interceptor shield if America insists
on building them.
"I do not exclude the missile-defence shield sites in Poland
and the Czech Republic being chosen as targets for some of our
intercontinental ballistic missiles," said Gen Nikolai Solovtsov.
America insists that its new shield will carry only a few missiles,
designed to intercept warheads fired from rogue states, such as
Iran.
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But Gen Solovtsov dismissed that concept as a lie, claiming that
America was determined to surround Russia with its military might.
"If the Americans signed a treaty with us that they would
only deploy 10 anti-missile rockets in Poland and one radar in
the Czech Republic and will never put anything else there, then
we could deal with this," he said. "However they won't
sign, they just tell us verbally, 'We won't threaten you'."
Full
article here.
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