US missile could trigger Russian strike: Russian army chief

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Russian missile warning 'unacceptable': Polish PM
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk judged "unacceptable" Sunday a warning by Russia's army head of a possible retaliation if US interceptor missiles planned for deployment in Poland are ever used. "This kind of declaration is unacceptable. No declaration of this kind will influence Polish-American negotiations" on US plans to site 10 interceptor missiles in Poland, Tusk said in an interview with Poland's private TVN television channel. The United States has also outlined plans for a radar base in the Czech Republic. Under Washington's schedule, both would be up and running by 2012 as part of a missile defence shield aimed, the US administration says, against a possible missile threat from rogue states such as Iran. Russia has strongly objected to the plans, considering them a threat to its security. On Saturday, Russia's army chief of staff Yury Baluyevsky suggested that a "mistaken classification of an interceptor missile launch" could trigger a retaliatory strike from Moscow, whose security systems might misinterpret it as being aimed at Russia. "When I heard the words of the Russian general on an automatic reaction, I was reminded of the worst period" of the communist era, Tusk said. Baluyevsky's remarks also triggered a sharp reaction from the Czech foreign ministry which described his language as "unimaginable in the democratic world." But Tusk also said Warsaw wanted to talk about the missile shield with all parties concerned, including Russia.

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Moscow (AFP) Dec 15, 2007
The planned deployment of US interceptor missiles in Poland could trigger a missile strike by Russia if those missiles are ever used, the Russian army's chief of staff warned on Saturday.

"We are talking about the possibility of a retaliatory strike being triggered by the mistaken classification of an interceptor missile," Yury Baluyevsky said at a press conference broadcast on state television.

Baluyevsky explained that an interceptor missile launched by the United States could be mistaken by Russia's automatic defence system for a ballistic missile aimed against Russia.

"Who is going to take responsibility for an automatic triggering of the system if an interceptor missile is launched from Polish territory through Russia to strike down an Iranian missile?"

"I don't mean to scare anyone but this isn't a scare story.... It's a technical detail that could affect the military stability of the world," Baluyevsky said.

The United States has outlined plans to site 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar base in the Czech Republic by 2012 as part of a missile defence shield aimed, Washington says, against a possible missile threat from Iran.

Russia has said that there is no such threat and that the missile shield can therefore only be aimed at Russia. Russia has vowed to take measures to defend its security against the US plans.

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US wants nuclear-free Middle East, but on conditions

Dubai (AFP) Dec 13, 2007
The United States favours denuclearisation of the Middle East in principle, provided that a global peace has been reached there and control is imposed on Iran's nuclear capacity, the US ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency told a debate in Dubai.

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