UPI International Intelligence articles from March 2007

UPI International Intelligence archives from March 2007

Analysis: Iraqi police in militias.
March 1, 2007... Byline: REBECCA PEARSEY WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Iraqi police wear their uniforms by day, but when night falls some take them off and morph into the sectarian militias. They don the uniforms to infiltrate the Iraqi and U.S. police...

Review of the Arab press.
March 1, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, March 1 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for March 1: Jordanian daily ad-Dustour commented Thursday on how the International Court of Justice absolved Serbia of genocide after 14 years of deliberations and soon after, the chief...

Analysis: Lebanon on the verge of a coup?
March 1, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- Lebanon's charismatic Druze leader Walid Jumblatt was in Washington this week seeking support from the Bush administration for the pro-democracy March 14 Movement and for the beleaguered...

Analysis: Ukraine's westward push.
March 1, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, March 1 (UPI) -- Ukraine is on a westward course toward the European Union, yet the country's advances for NATO membership have been put on hold ever since the country started being led by an unlikely team-up...

Analysis: The cost of illicit drugs.
March 1, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, March 1 (UPI) -- The price of illicit drugs usually is below the market cost of legal medication, but the U.N.-backed International Narcotics Control Board said the cost to consumers is often much...

Analysis: Can the U.S. help Lebanon?
March 2, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, March 2 (UPI) -- The diplomatic ballet of comings and goings by Lebanon's political leaders to Washington lends one to presume that the Bush administration is suddenly becoming more interested, and...

Policy Watch: How multipolar is Moscow?
March 2, 2007... Byline: MARK N. KATZ WASHINGTON, March 2 (UPI) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has frequently called for the creation of a "multipolar" world in order to limit America's ability to act unilaterally without consulting others, especially...

Outside View: International law on trial.
March 2, 2007... Byline: PYOTR ROMANOV MOSCOW, March 2 (UPI) -- If international law were put on trial, I am not sure it would be acquitted. Well, it might be, but only by reason of insanity. It is beyond the powers of an ordinary person to understand...

Analysis: Seoul's rice card for N.Korea.
March 2, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, March 2 (UPI) -- South Korea said it will not provide rice to North Korea until the country takes steps to dismantle its nuclear facilities, effectively linking economic aid to a resolution of the nuclear...

Analysis: China's global step forward.
March 2, 2007... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, March 2 (UPI) -- If the ability to move global markets is a gauge to measure a country's global influence, then China has certainly earned its star this week. The question remains, however, whether or not...

Analysis: Who really makes Israeli policy?
March 2, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, March 2 (UPI) -- The directive Israel's former ambassador to Britain Zvi Shtauber received from Jerusalem made him happy: Finally Israel was going to say "yes" to a peace initiative. British...

Walker's World: NATO's two faces.
March 5, 2007... Byline: MARTIN WALKER NEW DELHI, March 5 (UPI) -- The NATO alliance now has two faces. The European face was on display in Wiesbaden, Germany, over the weekend when German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung suggested that the new American...

Commentary: Time for TV detox.
March 5, 2007... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, March 5 (UPI) -- The bilious index is up in America as television commercials resort to mindless anger to sell their wares. A Snickers ad featured two plug-ugly bruisers chomping at either end of a...

Politics & Policies: Mideast March madness.
March 5, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI ST.PETERSBURG, Fla., March 5 (UPI) -- Spring is just around the corner, which means this is traditionally a good time for military offensives. This year the greater Middle East can expect at least two, if not more....

Review of the Arab press.
March 5, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, March 5 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for March 5: Saudi Arabia's Okaz commented in its editorial Monday on the meeting between Saudi King Abdullah and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad in Riyadh that their statements on...

Analysis: The U.N.'s war on global warming.
March 5, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, March 5 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reached back to his past to tell the students he was addressing how as a child he first became aware of the world organization he now heads and...

Interview: Pyonyang talks key for peace.
March 5, 2007... Byline: MICHAEL MARSHALL SEOUL, March 5 (UPI) -- Kim Dae-jung, former South Korean president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, must be feeling a sense of vindication now that the Bush administration is speaking to "axis of evil" member North...

Review of the Arab press.
March 6, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, March 6 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for March 6: Jordan's al-Arab al-Yawm Tuesday blasted repeated Iraqi and U.S. claims that their joint security plan in Baghdad is going well, saying the statistics show these claims are far...

Analysis: S. Korea leans to conservatism.
March 6, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, March 6 (UPI) -- South Koreans becoming more conservative apparently largely as a result of President Roh Moo-hyun's unpopular left-leaning policies, a survey showed on Tuesday. The poll also indicated South...

Analysis:Israeli Arab demands startle Jews.
March 6, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, March 6 (UPI) -- It seemed as if a veil that blurred the schism between Israel's Jews and the country's Arab minority was lifted. An organization that represents the Arabs, the National Committee...

Analysis: Germany's U.S. deserter trial.
March 6, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, March 6 (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush wants to stay the course in Iraq, but more and more of his troops want out. A desertion trial against a U.S. soldier who refused to go to Iraq opened Tuesday in...

Analysis: Iraq aside, U.S. leads markets.
March 6, 2007... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, March 6 (UPI) -- When it comes to the war in Iraq, U.S. allies are becoming scarcer by the day while the number of countries either skeptical or downright hostile towards the Bush administration's policy...

Analysis: Where's the Darfur letter?
March 6, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, March 6 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's special envoy to Sudan's war-torn western region of Darfur Jan Eliasson returned from his latest mission to Khartoum saying the parties must...

Walker's World: India's nuke deal falters.
March 7, 2007... Byline: MARTIN WALKER MUMBAI, March 7 (UPI) -- There is a serious problem with this week's detailed negotiations on the nuclear cooperation agreement between India and the United States, whose success is essential if the Bush...

Analysis: Al-Qaida in south Lebanon.
March 7, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 7 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida has begun to infiltrate fighters in parts of southern Lebanon, replacing Hezbollah militants who were forced out of the area by Israel during last summer's violent...

Review of the Arab press.
March 7, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, March 7 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for March 7: The London-based al-Quds al-Arabi commented Wednesday on the U.S. court's verdict convicting Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney. Describing...

Analysis:S.Korea steps up wooing Pyongyang.
March 7, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, March 7 (UPI) -- South Korea's former prime minister and lawmaker left for North Korea on Wednesday amid speculation that his visit is aimed at arranging an inter-Korean summit. Lee Hae-chan and his ruling...

Analysis: Germany toughens immigrant laws.
March 7, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, March 7 (UPI) -- Germany's top security chief stepped up calls to reform the country's immigration laws to counter terrorist threats, and fight forced marriages as well as illegal immigration. Last...

Berlin lauds U.S.-German anti-terror moves.
March 7, 2007... BERLIN, March 7 (UPI) -- Germany's top security chief praised intelligence cooperation with the United States after a German court issued arrest warrants for U.S. agents. "Germany would be much worse off without a close cooperation with...

Analysis: Israel minister haunted by past.
March 7, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, March 7 (UPI) -- A soldier's account of fighting in the 1967 Six Days War came back to haunt "Fuad," better known as Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, now Israel's Minister for National Infrastructure. "The...

Review of the Arab press.
March 8, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, March 8 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for March 8: Jordanian newspapers Thursday praised King Abdullah II's speech before a joint session of Congress Wednesday, particularly his emphasis on resolving the Palestinian issue....

Walker's World: India's baby bust.
March 8, 2007... Byline: MARTIN WALKER AHMEDABAD, India, March 8 (UPI) -- It was a bad day for Doctor Harshad Thakkar when a well-dressed woman and her pregnant servant came to his office in the fast-growing state of Gujerat, India, this week. Claiming...

Outside View: Progress with North Korea.
March 8, 2007... Byline: MARK BARRY NEW YORK, March 8 (UPI) -- Talks between U.S. and North Korean diplomats in New York this week, on top of the Feb. 13 agreement in the six-party talks on initial actions for the implementation of the September 2005 Joint...

Commentary: Silver linings in war clouds.
March 8, 2007... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, March 8 (UPI) -- Word from Saudi insiders who were privy to recent talks in Riyadh between King Abdullah and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is encouraging, but it will almost surely disappoint those who...

Analysis: Germany's Tornado challenge.
March 8, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, March 8 (UPI) -- Germany's Parliament Friday decides on a controversial mission of German reconnaissance jets in Afghanistan, where a NATO spring offensive aims to drive back the Taliban. The German...

Analysis: Intelligence summit takes flak.
March 8, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 8 (UPI) -- Old pros from America's secretive world of espionage and counterterrorism emerged temporarily from the shadows to convene for a three-day "Intelligence Summit" in a downtown...

Analysis: West Bank, Gaza drifting apart.
March 8, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, March 8 (UPI) -- During one of the clashes between the Palestinian Fatah and Hamas parties, President Mahmoud Abbas decided to go to Gaza and faced an odd reaction. "What is he coming here for?" some...

Analysis: Israeli hardliners slam Sharon.
March 8, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, June 9, 2003 (UPI) -- Hundreds of Likud Party members booed and whistled the moment the heavy set figure of their leader, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, appeared on the stage of Jerusalem's Convention...

Analysis: U.N. suspends Iran nuke tech aid.
March 8, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, March 8 (UPI) -- The United Nation's nuclear watchdog suspended a series of technical aid projects in Iran as members of the U.N. Security Council work to ramp up sanctions against Tehran for...

Outside View: Why India will sit out Iran.
March 9, 2007... Byline: M.D. NALAPAT MANIPAL, India, March 9 (UPI) -- Iran's ongoing effort to master uranium enrichment technology may lead to U.S. air and missile strikes designed to cripple its reprocessing capacity. The risks and rewards of such an...

Analysis:Free trade may top S.Korea agenda.
March 9, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, March 9 (UPI) -- South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun on Friday nominated former finance minister and free trade flag-bearer as the country's new prime minister, reflecting his determination to push for free...

Policy Watch: Russia's double standards.
March 9, 2007... Byline: MARK N. KATZ WASHINGTON, March 9 (UPI) -- Russian officials and commentators frequently complain that Washington applies double standards regarding its own behavior and Moscow's. America, these Russians claim, calls upon Moscow not...

Analysis: Olmert in hot water.
March 10, 2007... TEL AVIV, Israel, March 10 (UPI) -- Israel's Cabinet ministers Tuesday witnessed an unusual spectacle. Defense Minister Amir Peretz was standing at the long table, stomping his feet, angrily waving his hands. "Olmert is behaving as a sole...

Analysis:U.S. military concerns for China.
March 10, 2007... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, March 10 (UPI) -- There is no denying that the U.S. military is overstretched, not least as troop presence is expected to surge in Iraq while its commitment in Afghanistan remains high. Yet despite such...

Review of the Arab press.
March 12, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, March 12 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for March 12: Palestine's al-Quds said Monday the meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert fell short of achieving substantial progress...

Analysis: Chirac's long goodbye to France.
March 12, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, March 12 (UPI) -- French President Jacques Chirac announced on national television Sunday night that he would not seek a third term, and despite earlier speculations, he would step down from a career...

Walker's World: India's new alliances.
March 12, 2007... Byline: MARTIN WALKER NEW DELHI, March 12 (UPI) -- India, Japan and the United States are to hold joint naval exercises in the Pacific Ocean, a marked increase in the range and extent of India's fast-changing strategic re-alignment toward...

Atlantic Eye: Pyongyang worries E. Europe.
March 12, 2007... Byline: MARC S. ELLENBOGEN BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, March 12 (UPI) -- With nearly two dozen participants from 15 countries, the North Korea Initiative (NKI)'s Slovakia meeting last week was hosted by Foreign Minister Jan Kubis and State...

Analysis: Women fight gender violence.
March 12, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, March 12 (UPI) -- Two weeks ago, about 4,000 women from advocacy groups around the world converged at U.N. World Headquarters in New York for the 51st Session of the U.N. Economic and Social...

Analysis: A new test for British passport.
March 12, 2007... Byline: JACKSON E. KENTEBE WASHINGTON, March 12 (UPI) -- Immigrants seeking British citizenship should do community work before they qualify, according to some lawmakers. Addressing a recent seminar on "Britishness" at the...

Realpolitik: Ending the Iraq strife.
March 12, 2007... Byline: ALON BEN-MEIR NEW YORK, March 12 (UPI) -- For the U.S. representative, actually sitting at the same table last weekend in Baghdad with Iranian and Syrian delegates in itself was an important development. The next meeting in April...

Analysis: Terrorism fears grow in Europe.
March 12, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, March 12 (UPI) -- A series of Islamist terrorist killings, kidnappings and video threats have shocked several Western European nations in recent weeks. A German aid worker was killed in Afghanistan,...

Analysis: Human rights in Sudan's Darfur.
March 12, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY GENEVA, Switzerland, March 12 (UPI) -- The U.N. Human Rights Council High Level Mission to Sudan, mandated to assess the situation in the nation's western Darfur region, delivered a critical report back to the...

Analysis: Israel nods to Saudi peace idea.
March 12, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, March 12 (UPI) -- Israel seems to be warming up to a Saudi peace initiative that Arab leaders are due to discuss at their summit meeting in Riyadh at the end of this month. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert...

Review of the Arab press.
March 13, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, March 13 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for March 13: The London-based al-Hayat Tuesday quoted Arab League Secretary-General Amr Mousa saying the upcoming Arab summit in Riyadh this month will discuss, for the first time,...

Analysis: N.Korea deal faces test.
March 13, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, March 13 (UPI) -- The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency embarked on a two-day tour of North Korea Tuesday in a litmus test for implementing a landmark deal on ending the communist country's nuclear...

Analysis: Vive le roi, the Thai way.
March 13, 2007... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, March 13 (UPI) -- Disregard for democracy and the rule of law may be tolerated in Thailand. But when it comes to insulting the country's monarch, caution is needed or else the critic may well face prison...

Analysis: Give war a chance.
March 13, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, March 13 (UPI) -- If former Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono sang "Give Peace a Chance" while holed up in the Amsterdam Hilton during their "bed-in," Washington's general in charge of directing...

Analysis: The global aging problem.
March 13, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, March 13 (UPI) -- The United Nations says while the world's population is expected to increase 2.5 billion people in the next 43 years -- an increase equal to the global population of 1950 -- the...

Analysis: Khartoum undermines court.
March 13, 2007... Byline: ANJA TRANOVICH UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., March 12 (UPI) -- The ongoing saga to bring justice to the ravaged Darfur region continues as officials in Khartoum openly defy the International Criminal Court prosecutor's recent request for...

Analysis: Iranian official defected?
March 13, 2007... Byline: OWEN PRASKIEVICZ WASHINGTON, March 13 (UPI) -- A senior Iranian official who reportedly defected in Turkey last month may have documents linking Iran to terrorists throughout the Middle East, according to various reports released...

UNDP suspends North Korea operations.
March 14, 2007... UNITED NATIONS, March 13 (UPI) -- The U.N. Development Program suspended its operations in North Korea and withdrawing all but two of its international staff by week's end. A UNDP spokesman said Tuesday the move comes over the Democratic...

Analysis:Israeli kibbutz changes character.
March 14, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT DEGANIA ALEF, Israel, March 14 (UPI) -- Ninety-seven years ago European-born Jewish idealists arrived at the south western corner of the Sea of Galilee and established a utopian community. They thought each of...

Analysis: Integration stops German terror.
March 14, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, March 14 (UPI) -- Germany's top security chief wants to improve integrating the country's 3.2 million Muslims in an attempt to discourage home-grown terrorism. Germany last September held the first-ever...

Analysis: Israel war probe unveils secrets.
March 14, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL HASHOMER, Israel, March 14 (UPI) -- A government-appointed committee investigating last year's Lebanon War slightly lifted a heavy veil of secrecy over its thoughts and led some analysts to conclude it was...

Analysis: U.N. sees potential in Mideast.
March 14, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, March 14 (UPI) -- The new head of the U.N. Department of Political Affairs briefing the Security Council for the first time is a bit upbeat on the Middle East, but realistic, saying recent events...

Review of the Arab press.
March 14, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, March 14 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for March 14: The United Arab Emirates' al-Khaleej said Wednesday the highest ranking U.S. officials always stand before the Israeli lobby, AIPAC, obeying and seeking approval from Israel....

Commentary: Afghanistan's opium tango.
March 14, 2007... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, March 14 (UPI) -- Sixty percent of Afghanistan's 30 million people are under 20 -- without the foggiest notion of what democracy stands for. Thirty-seven countries are involved in normalization and...

Analysis: S.Korea in peace dilemma.
March 14, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, March 14 (UPI) -- South Korean officials are hopeful that the recent breakthrough on North Korea's nuclear impasse would lead to the establishment of a permanent peace regime on the Korean peninsula replacing...

Walker's World: India's top Muslim.
March 14, 2007... Byline: MARTIN WALKER NEW DELHI, March 14 (UPI) -- The very name of Jamaat-e-Islami sounds alarming in the post-9/11 era. And the intensely anti-Jewish and anti-American rhetoric of Jamaat-e-Islami mullahs in Bangladesh and Pakistan and...

Analysis: U.N. to submit Kosovo plan.
March 15, 2007... Byline: CLAIRE LEVENSON NEW YORK, March 14 (UPI) -- "The potential of negotiations is exhausted." That was how Martti Ahtisaari, the chief U.N. envoy to Kosovo presented the situation in the territory today. However Ahtisaari said he...

Analysis: No progress in Korea rail talks.
March 15, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, March 15 (UPI) -- South Korea's push to expand reconciliation projects with North Korea faced problems Thursday as the two Koreas failed to agree on the proposed run of trains across their border. At the...

Analysis: Israel rejects Hamas-Fatah deal.
March 15, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, March 15 (UPI) -- Putting an end to months of bitter and often bloody clashes, the two main rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, are reported to have reached an agreement to form a government of...

Analysis: Georgia woos NATO, angers Russia.
March 15, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, March 15 (UPI) -- The former Soviet republic of Georgia is taking strides toward NATO membership, and European Union officials hope the country can help guarantee security in the South Caucasus and serve as a...

Analysis: Palestine's new cabinet line-up.
March 15, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, March 15 (UPI) -- Palestinian leaders have agreed to form a broad-based national unity government they hope will win international recognition, sorely needed aid, and restore order to embattled streets....

Review of the Arab press.
March 15, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, March 15 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for March 15: London-based al-Quds al-Arabi commented Thursday the Palestinians living in Arab countries face difficult conditions from time to time, such as in Kuwait in 1990-91 and being...

Analysis:Qatar's Arab brain drain concern.
March 16, 2007... Byline: DALAL SAOUD DOHA, Qatar, March 16 (UPI) -- Qatar, which is positioning itself as the Middle East center for world-class education, is embarking on a new daring challenge: to reverse Arab "brain drain" that reached an alarming point...

Policy Watch: Putin's potemkin alliance.
March 16, 2007... Byline: MARK N. KATZ WASHINGTON, March 16 (UPI) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin places great store by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a regional international organization Russia co-founded in 2001 that also includes China,...

Analysis: Saudi Arabia's challenge.
March 16, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, March 16 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabia will be hosting an Arab summit later this month. On the agenda will figure two of the Middle East's most burning issues -- the war in Iraq and the situation in the...

Analysis: Peace from West Bank barriers?
March 16, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT ROUTE 443, West Bank, March 16 (UPI) -- For many Israelis, Route 443 that cuts through the West Bank is the preferred way to commute between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. It is shorter than the other highway, Route...

Analysis: Iran: Paper tiger or real threat?
March 19, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, March 19 (UPI) -- Responding to a UPI article published last week on Saudi Arabia's worries over mounting Iranian influence in the Arab world, a well-informed Saudi source told United Press International...

Walker's World: India's brain food.
March 19, 2007... Byline: MARTIN WALKER MUMBAI, March 19 (UPI) -- Last year more than 50,000 Indians who won admission in principle to U.S. universities were unable to obtain visas. So following the principle that if the mountain would not come to Mohammad,...

Outside View: A new Middle East covenant.
March 19, 2007... Byline: MORGAN STRONG NEW YORK, March 19 (UPI) -- The Bush administration has agreed to support a Saudi Arabian peace plan for Israel and Palestine. Superficially, the plan, with no substantive difference, is the same Saudi peace plan...

Analysis: U.S. missiles divide Germans.
March 19, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, March 19 (UPI) -- For the first time since Chancellor Angela Merkel took power in late 2005, German officials sharpened criticism toward Washington because of its plan to station a missile-defense system in...