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Bear Bombers Over Guam Russian nuclear bombers circle Guam
Free Beacon ^ | 2/15/13 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 02/15/2013 1:29:04 PM PST by Nachum

Two Russian nuclear-armed bombers circled the western Pacific island of Guam this week in the latest sign of Moscow’s growing strategic assertiveness toward the United States.

The Russian Tu-95 Bear-H strategic bombers were equipped with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and were followed by U.S. jets as they circumnavigated Guam on Feb. 12 local time—hours before President Barack Obama’s state of the union address.

Air Force Capt. Kim Bender, a spokeswoman for the Pacific Air Force in Hawaii, confirmed the incident to the Washington Free Beacon and said Air Force F-15 jets based on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, “scrambled and responded to the aircraft.”

“The Tu-95s were intercepted and left the area in a northbound direction. No further actions occurred,” she said. Bender said no other details would be released “for operational security reasons.”

The bomber incident was considered highly unusual. Russian strategic bombers are not known to have conducted such operations in the past into the south Pacific from bomber bases in the Russian Far East, which is thousands of miles away and over water.

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TOPICS: Japan; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bear; bombers; guam; japan; russia; waronterror
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Right before the State of the Union address...
1 posted on 02/15/2013 1:29:15 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


2 posted on 02/15/2013 1:29:55 PM PST by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Careful, they could tip the island over.


3 posted on 02/15/2013 1:31:05 PM PST by dfwgator
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They would probably try to keep it balanced out so that it wouldn’t tip over like the other 57 states.


4 posted on 02/15/2013 1:34:23 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: Nachum

Gertz should take a look at his globe. Guam is not in the “South Pacific.” It is in the Western Pacific north of the equator.


5 posted on 02/15/2013 1:36:01 PM PST by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: Nachum

Remember those “unexplained” contrails off the Southern California coast last year?


6 posted on 02/15/2013 1:37:11 PM PST by Renegade
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To: dfwgator

This just 2 days before we send a meteor over the Urals? There are no coincidences. ;^)


7 posted on 02/15/2013 1:37:32 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Nachum
The Russians are rubbin it in Zero's face.
Possibly the Russians can teach us some lessons about socialism?
9 posted on 02/15/2013 1:41:59 PM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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Shhhh, be vewy vewy quiet. We’a hunting Wussians.


11 posted on 02/15/2013 1:42:08 PM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: Nachum

Duh, Obama told the Russians that he would be more flexible after he was re-elected.


12 posted on 02/15/2013 1:42:08 PM PST by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Commune Obama"care" violates Anti-Trust Law s, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: Nachum

I say BS on the “nuclear armed”.. How could anyone know what was loaded. I doubt the Russians sent out the load manifest in case we were curious.


13 posted on 02/15/2013 1:44:28 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Nachum

I wouldn’t get too worked up about it. This kind of thing has been routine Russian practice for decades. There was at least one reported incident during Bush’s 2nd term in 2007:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/08/09/russia.sorties.reut/index.html


14 posted on 02/15/2013 1:44:50 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: forgotten man

I thought that as well.


15 posted on 02/15/2013 1:46:14 PM PST by stormer
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To: Renegade
Remember those “unexplained” contrails off the Southern California coast last year?

It was explained - it was a commercial airliner.

16 posted on 02/15/2013 1:46:14 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Nachum

Now that Barry has “more flexibility” he probably told the russkies they could have Guam, or any of the 57 states of their choosing.


17 posted on 02/15/2013 1:53:54 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (It's not "GUN CONTROL"! It's "PEOPLE CONTROL"!)
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To: Nachum
Two Russian nuclear-armed bombers circled the western Pacific island of Guam this week in the latest sign of Moscow’s growing strategic assertiveness toward the United States.

Yep. They know that zero is such a pathetic "leader" that we won't do anything about it.

And, we haven't!

18 posted on 02/15/2013 1:58:33 PM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
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To: Nachum

Testing..testing.. testing...probing..probing...probing. The campaigner-in-chief just couldn’t be bothered, and the WORLD leaders know it.


19 posted on 02/15/2013 2:04:49 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: The Sons of Liberty

They took a look at our portfolio and decided a desert island in the middle of the Pacific would give them the best return.


20 posted on 02/15/2013 2:08:07 PM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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