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NATO surveys possible missile sites on Turkish-Syrian borders: Report
[Al Ahram] NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... experts on Wednesday began a survey of sites that would serve as suitable locations for the deployment of Patriot missiles along the border with its war-torn neighbour Syria, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported. Turkey last week asked NATO partners to deploy the surface-to-air missiles along its frontier with Syria after a series of cross-border shellings, including an attack that left five civilians dead. NATO has yet to formally respond to the request. The NATO experts were due to visit a military base in eastern Turkey's Malatya province, which already hosts an early warning radar as part of NATO's missile defence system, Anatolia said. Turkish officials say the number of Patriot batteries and their location would be decided after the visiting team reports back to the alliance. Aside from Malatya, the Patriots could be deployed in the southeastern provinces of Diyarbakir or Sanliurfa. Turkey might receive up to six Patriot batteries and some 300 foreign troops to operate the missiles, which are expected to be supplied by The Netherlands or Germany, the two European providers of the US-made weapons. Posted by: Fred 2012-11-29 |
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