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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 23. April 2005 / Time Line April 23, 2005
Version 3.022. April 2005, 24. April 2005
04/23/2005
U.S. missile company scouts Labrador
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/04/22/missile-labrador050422.html
ST. JOHN'S, NFLD. - An American missile contractor has been
secretly scouting locations for a radar installation in Labrador,
despite Prime Minister Paul Martin's decision to keep Canada out of
the U.S. missile defence shield program.
In late February, Martin made it clear that Canada won't be part of
Washington's controversial program to shoot down incoming missiles
aimed at North America.
"We took the decision on ballistic missile defence in terms of
where Canada's interests lay," he said.
A little more than a month later, CBC News has learned, senior
officials from the Raytheon Company travelled to Happy Valley-Goose
Bay, Labrador, on a scouting trip.
The Massachusetts-based corporation builds missiles for the
American military and is a major player in the design of the North
American ballistic missile defence shield.
One visitor was the principal mechanical engineer of national
missile defence with Raytheon. The other was the manager of X-band
sensor systems, a finely tuned type of imaging radar used in
early-warning systems...
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