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AllGov November 29, 2009 U.S. to Station Troops in Poland for First Time Noel Brinkerh In a move intended to assuage the Polish government, the United States will send for the first time a small detachment of soldiers next year to Poland to man ***an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) battery intended to guard against a Russian attack***. Officials in Warsaw have been clamoring for greater security assistance from the U.S. not only for protection against the longtime adversary from the east, but also as payback for sending Polish troops to Iraq and Afghanistan to help the U.S. .... The Patriot deployment is a leftover from the Bush administration’s plan to install long-range ABMs in Poland to defend Europe against missile attacks from the Middle East. President Barack Obama scrapped that idea in an effort to smooth relations with Moscow, while retaining the smaller deployment of the Patriot, which has considerably less range. =========================== Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato Blog site: http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/ To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected] or [email protected] Daily digest option available. ==============================
