from the New York Times …..

Pentagon Invites Kremlin to Link Missile Systems

By THOM SHANKER

Published: April 21, 2007

WASHINGTON, April 20 - The Bush administration is offering Russia a new package of incentives to drop its strong opposition to American missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, including an invitation to begin linking some American and Russian antimissile systems, according to senior administration and military officials.

The package includes American offers to cooperate on developing defense technology and to share intelligence about common threats, as well as to permit Russian officials to inspect the future missile bases.

American officials said the initiatives were proposed at least in part at the urging of European allies, and reflected an acknowledgment at the highest levels of the Bush administration that it had not been agile in dealing with Russia - and with some NATO allies - on its plan to place defensive missiles and radar in Poland and the Czech Republic.

The initiatives include offers that are "deeper, more specific and concrete" than any previous proposal for cooperation from the Bush administration to the Kremlin, according to one senior official involved in planning talks with the Russians.

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