By Jim Wolf
Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:32pm EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States hopes to put a third major antimissile component in Europe along with those under negotiation with Poland and the Czech Republic to counter Iran, the general building a multibillion-dollar shield said Tuesday.
The previously unannounced third leg in Europe involves a highly mobile X-band radar station, built by Raytheon Co. It would be placed closer to Iran, which is speeding efforts to build ballistic missiles capable of delivering deadly weapons beyond the Middle East, said Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry Obering, head of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency.
The powerful, “forward based” radar system would go in southeastern Europe, possibly in Turkey, the Caucasus or the Caspian Sea region, Obering told a defense-technology conference sponsored by Aviation Week magazine.
h/t: ICH
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Dandelion Salad 
The proposed sites for the latest one are more “Asia Minor”, than “South Eastern Europe”. Vladimir Putin and Hu Jintao see it that way anyway, so it’s another highly provocative move.
If everything goes to plan, eventually there will be two “components” in eastern europe, one in Asia Minor, one in Alaska and one in Japan. Rhetorical question, what’s between those points? The suggestion that these are aimed at the non threats of Iran and North Korea sounds like something of a decoy, their locations have been carefully designed to surround two very large nuclear powers. In the midst of everything else, the US has decided to restart the “Cold War”.