Fri, Dec 07, 2007 - Page 6 News List

US pushes ahead with missile defense

ANOTHER INCONVENIENT TRUTH The US argument for its so-called European missile defense system is in tatters, but Washington says it has no plans to drop the initiative

AP , WASHINGTON

That effort now seems more complicated by a perception in those countries that the administration has oversold the threat from Iran.

"The United States has been adamant in not tying missile defense plans in Europe to a threat from Russia," said Julianne Smith, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Europe program. "If you knock down the threat from Iran, it complicates the communications strategy."

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