Czech Villagers Reject U.S. 'Star Wars' Facility Planned For Their 'Backyard
The Pentagon has selected Brdy in the Czech Republic as the nerve center for the European platform of its contentious missile defense program, planning to site a radar station on one of the hills here which would be capable of throwing a very fine beam thousands of miles into space to detect and track small objects outside the Earth's atmosphere. Should one of those small objects be an Iranian intercontinental ballistic missile, so the theory goes, the Brdy radar will guide one or more of the 10 interceptor missiles, to be installed in Poland, which will fly into space to "kill" the enemy rocket before any harm is done.
"It's nonsense," said Vaclav Konicek, a Czech army captain for 21 years, who now works as a security guard for a Volkswagen dealer. "Anyone round here who is sane is against this."
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