Military defends rooftop missile plans

LONDON (Reuters) - Military chiefs defended plans on Monday to put missile batteries on top of apartment blocks to help protect London from a 9/11-style attack during this summer's Olympic Games, after appalled residents said it could make them a target.

With 88 days to go before the Games start, soldiers will start testing missile defences this week at six sites around the Olympic park as part of a training exercise in the run-up to Britain's biggest peacetime security operation.