WARSAW (Reuters) - The United States and Poland signed a deal on Wednesday to station parts of a U.S. missile defence shield on Polish soil, a move certain to aggravate Russia-Western tensions over Moscow's intervention in Georgia.
The 10 interceptor rockets in Poland together with a radar complex in the Czech Republic will form the European part of a global system Washington says it is assembling to shoot down ballistic missiles from "rogue" states or militant groups such as al-Qaeda.
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