Russia Threat Over Missile Shield

Russia says it may be forced to react with military means, if the US deploys a missile shield close to its borders. The system is designed to protect against missile attacks "If a US strategic anti-missile shield is deployed near our borders, we will be forced to react not in a diplomatic fashion but with military resources," the Moscow's foreign ministry said in a statement. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed a missile defence deal with the Czech Republic permitting the siting of a tracking radar station on Czech soil. It will be part of an extended US missile shield that Washington says is necessary to ward off potential attacks by so-called "rogue" states like Iran. The US wants the Czech radar twinned with interceptor missiles in neighbouring Poland, although negotiations with Warsaw have become bogged down... [read full story]