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A U.S. Patriot missile battery has arrived in Poland as part of an agreement to upgrade the NATO ally's air defenses, the U.S. embassy said on Monday, in a deployment likely to irritate neighboring Russia.The battery, manned by up to 150 U.S. troops, will be stationed for about one month four times a year in Morag, northern Poland, close to Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad. Its main mission is to train Polish military personnel. U.S. troops were unloading 37 railway cars of equipment on Monday, the embassy said. U.S. and Polish officials are due to visit the site on Wednesday and...

Poland will unveil its first US Patriot-type missiles battery at a military base in the northern town of Morag on May 26, a Polish defence ministry spokesman said Tuesday, AFP reports. "Ceremonies associated with the first rotation of the Patriot missile battery will be held Wednesday, May 26, in Morag", spokesman Janusz Sejmej said in a statement. Asked by AFP, the defence ministry's press service declined Tuesday to provide further details. The Polish military base at Morag, in the Mazurian Lakes region, is some 250 kilometres (150 miles) north of Warsaw and just 60 kilometres (40 miles) from the border...

The first-ever battery of US Patriot missiles to be deployed in Poland will arrive in late May, defence ministry spokesman Janusz Sejmej told AFP on Wednesday. "Following preparations and consultations, the first deployment of a battery of anti-missile Patriots will start around May 24 in Morag," Sejmej said. The Polish military base at Morag, in the Mazurian Lakes region, is some 250 kilometres (150 miles) north of Warsaw and just 60 kilometres (40 kilometres) from the border with Russia's Kaliningrad territory. Sejmej refused to say how long the deployment would last, but said it was "temporary". In February, Poland ratified...

IDF kills one Palestinian Soldiers in Gaza return fire on terror cell, killing one; in West Bank, soldiers intercept teen bomb-smuggler at checkpoint and undertaking military operation in Nablus By Hanan Greenberg and Ali Waked An IDF force shot and killed a Palestinian gunman who opened fire at soldiers Wednesday evening near the Morag settlement in southern Gaza. IDF kills member of terror cell Photo: Reuters Palestinian sources say an additional militant was injured in the failed attack. There are no reported injuries among IDF troops. West Bank interception Earlier, the army arrested a 17-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank...

Rocket Lands Near Nahal Oz, Mortar Shell Lands in Morag 21:04 Jan 18, '05 / 8 Shevat 5765 (IsraelNN.com) A rocket landed in an open field in pre-1967 Green Line Israel between Nahal Oz and Alumim. No injuries are being reported. A mortar shell landed in the southern Gaza community of Morag. There are no immediate reports of injuries.

IDF forces found a 130kg bomb near the Jewish community of Morag in the southern Gaza strip, reports Israel Radio. Border Police sappers safely defused the device. During the past two years, four hundred bombs have been found and defused in the Gaza Strip.