Topic: Bogdan Klich

BRUSSELS, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Poland announces a $25 billion defense spending spree; Slovenian PM claims innocence in Patria bribery scandal; the British government seeks to sell QinetiQ holdings.

WASHINGTON, July 9 (UPI) -- It has been a rollercoaster week for the Bush administration's plans to build anti-ballistic missile interceptor bases in Central Europe to guard against the future threat of Iranian nuclear attack.

BRUSSELS, June 25 (UPI) -- U.S. intelligence officials say the "most important" secret detention prison established after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks was in Szymany, Poland.

WASHINGTON, June 18 (UPI) -- Will the Bush administration try to build its proposed BMD base against the Iranian threat in Lithuania rather than Poland?

WASHINGTON, June 2 (UPI) -- It is starting to look as though Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk may be able to run out the clock to avoid letting the United States build an ABM base to protect U.S. East Coast cities against an Iranian nuclear-armed ICBM attack.

WARSAW, Poland, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- A Polish Cabinet minister said Washington agreed to consider a security accord with Warsaw in exchange for stationing a U.S. anti-missile defense in Poland.

WARSAW, Poland, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Polish Defense Minister Bogdan Klich said his talks in Washington will cover a U.S. plan to build a missile shield system in Central Europe.

BERLIN, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. plans for a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic may be delayed because Poland wants extra security guarantees. Warsaw also hopes a government change in Washington won't affect the controversial system.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his Czech counterpart are working out a joint position on building a U.S. anti-missile shield in Central Europe.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- The dramatic progress posted by nations such as the United States, Russia, Israel, Japan, India and even Iran in ballistic missile defense was balanced by the complacency for loss of political will on the issue in many other countries. For every "hare" nation on BMD in 2007, there was also a "tortoise."