Judge Dismisses Londoners" Suit Over Olympic Missiles LONDON - They have been billed by the government as an essential defense against an attempt to fly a hijacked passenger jet or a bomb-laden microlight aircraft into the 80,000-seat stadium that is to be the centerpiece of the London Olympic Games. But the idea of having ground-to-air rockets and missiles on the roof of their 15-story public housing complex in East London, about three miles from the Olympic stadium, upset some residents, who filed a lawsuit saying that the missile battery made them a potential target for a terrorist attack, and was a breach of their human rights. On Tuesday, a High Court judge dismissed the suit, saying the government's plans were "not susceptible to a sensible challenge." The ruling endorsed the government's argument that the air defense missiles, similar to those deployed at the last two Summer Olympics in Beijing and Athens, were necessary to help prevent a terrorist strike similar to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. With the judicial green light, a lawyer for the Defense Ministry said the deployment would "happen immediately" atop a high-rise known as the Fred Wigg Tower and five similar spots that will ring the Olympic site: another apartment complex, a reservoir, open farmland in East London and along hillsides in South London. Marc Willers, a lawyer for the Fred Wigg residents, said they were considering an appeal. But with legal experts saying a further challenge was unlikely to succeed, the government and Olympics organizers appeared to have cleared at least one potential hurdle to a trouble-free countdown for the July 27 opening ceremony. For the most part, the countdown has gone smoothly. Jacques Rogge, the Belgian doctor who is president of the International Olympic Committee, has congratulated British Olympic officials on having all the sites ready on time and within the official government budget of about $15 billion. There has been no mad-dash construction crisis as in Athens, and none of the human rights demonstrations that occurred before the Beijing Games. But there are anxieties, including concern about the weather after the wettest spring in Britain since record-keeping began in 1910. Torrential rains, floods and gusting winds have disrupted many events in a season of celebration that many had hoped would dispel the gloom of the country's persistent recession. Last weekend the national weather service issued what amounted to a jeremiad about the weather likely to face the 200 national squads and millions of spectators. "A protracted spell of hot, sunny weather looks very unlikely," it said, adding that inclement weather "will probably still be in evidence" though not as bad as in June and July so far. Another worry has been the capacity of Britain's already overloaded road, rail and air networks to cope with the huge surge of traffic associated with the Games, particularly in and around London, where the sporting venues are concentrated. Olympics organizers have said privately that the risk of congestion has weighed as heavily as the threat of a terrorist attack. Concern has focused on Heathrow Airport near London, where long lines at immigration, already a common problem, have worsened in recent weeks, to the point where some passengers arriving from outside the European Union have complained of waiting as long as two and a half hours to clear passport control. The problem has persisted despite government commitments to add hundreds of immigration officers ahead of the Games, and repeated, heavily publicized "walk-through" visits to Heathrow by government ministers. In recent days, with the average wait of an hour or more for many passengers arriving on overnight flights from the United States and other distant points, the police have voiced concerns about a possible breakdown of public order in the arrival halls. Passengers in lines snaking back from the immigration area into the passageways leading from the aircraft have broken into prolonged stints of slow-hand clapping, verbal assaults on immigration officers and, in some cases, attempts to walk unchecked through unstaffed immigration control booths. As the Olympics near, the fear is that the situation could worsen substantially. At the High Court hearing on the missile deployments, Mr. Willers, the lawyer for the Fred Wigg Tower residents, said deployment of high-velocity Rapier missiles on the building's roof, staffed by 10 soldiers and a protective guard of armed police officers, would invite an "evil statement" by terrorists in the form of an attack on the tower, and would violate a human rights law guarantee of an individual's right to "peaceful enjoyment" of his home. But the judge, Sir Charles Haddon-Cave, dismissed the arguments summarily. The residents, he said, appeared to be laboring under "something of a misapprehension" about their rights, the relevant laws and the risks.