Are Those Missiles on My Roof?

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It would make me feel safer, talk with the troops etc. But England is getting ready for the 2012 Olympics, which begin on July 27.

.Are Those Missiles on My Roof?

By NICK SCHIFRIN | ABC News – 23 hrs ago. 2 May 2012

Residents of an East London apartment complex have new, perhaps unwanted neighbors on their roofs: a dozen armed soldiers and surface-to-air missiles.

As part of the largest peacetime mobilization in British history, the military is installing the missile system in order to protect the Olympic stadium, which the apartment complex overlooks.

Residents of the private gated Bow Quarter complex in the London borough of Tower Hamlets took to Twitter this morning to post photos of soldiers arriving with pieces of the missile launchers. The military chose the seven-building residential property, according to a leaflet given to the 700 residents over the weekend, because of a 100-foot-high tower that has unobstructed views of the Olympic complex.

The missiles in this week's test are dummies, and the U.K.'s Ministry of Defense has not yet made a final determiniation about where missiles will be sited for the 2012 Olympics, which begin on July 27.

The most outspoken residents of Bow Quarter, however, all oppose the presence of the military and the missile system, saying the military failed to consult them and they worry that the missiles would make them even larger targets.

"I'm not sure I can sleep in a house knowing there are missiles on the roof," journalist Brian Whelan, who has led the effort to object to the missiles presence, told ABC News in an interview in his apartment. "There was no prospect of this building ever being attacked as a terrorist target. Putting missiles on the roof -- if there was ever to be a threat -- certainly raises that threat. "

And as usual one person wants reality to go away. And fails to understand it isn't to protect his apartment or the buildings.

http://news.yahoo.com/those-missiles...opstories.html