Tall buildings in London may be outfitted with missiles for Olympics

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London authorities look for another line of security at the Olympics by positioning rooftop missile arrays on residential buildings prior to this summer's games.

“It looked like one of those things where you get free pizzas through the post,” Hilal Bozkurt said, describing the innocuous-looking leaflet that came through her mail slot recently. “But this was like, free missiles.”

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