Czech leaders say OK to radar system

Rice says America, Europe face missile threat from Iran PRAGUE, Czech Republic - The United States and leaders of the Czech Republic agreed yesterday to place a radar system in this former Soviet satellite that would warn of long-range missiles coming to Europe from the Middle East. But Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice turned old Cold War rhetoric away from Moscow and toward Tehran as she signed the first solid treaty in what have been difficult negotiations. Iran looms as an ever-larger threat, and the next U.S. president is unlikely to walk away from the missile defense system the Bush administration is trying to establish in Eastern Europe, Rice said. "We face with the Iranians, and so do our allies and friends, a growing missile threat that is growing ever longer and ever deeper and where the Iranian appetite for... [read full story]