Russia's Strategic Air Command to hit terror bases worldwide
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2004-12-17 13:45
STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND READY TO HIT TERRORIST BASES
MOSCOW, December 17 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Air Force's strategic air command is ready to launch preventive strikes against terrorist bases in different parts of the world. This was disclosed to RIA Novosti today in Moscow by Lt.-Gen. Igor Khvorov in charge of the afore-said strategic air command.
The strategic air command is ready to accomplish this objective; and we were prepared to do this a long time ago, Khvorov added.
Considering the potential and range of strategic bombers, one can say that terrorists will not be able to hide anywhere in the world, Khvorov stressed.
First of all, the strategic air command aims to defend the state against external enemies, so that any hotheads would not want to test the strength of our state, Khvorov added.
Previously, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov confirmed the possibility of dealing preventive strikes against terrorist bases in any part of the world.
We do not rule out the possibility of launching preventive strikes against terrorist bases in any part of the world, Ivanov said. Surely enough, we will not name specific locations and deadlines in advance because such preventive strikes would otherwise prove ineffective, Ivanov noted. -
This isn't exactly new. I remember seeing a report in the news quite a while ago.
As for the content of the article, I suspect that when Russia mentions "different parts of the world", it refers to Chechnya and nations that support the uprising there. While Russia's military potential has been seriously reduced since the fall of the Sovet Union, it probably still has some capability to carry out these threats since the Balkans and the Middle East are relatively near Russia itself. -
Intersting to note that Ukraine has a detachment of Spetnaz troopers already in place should any violence break out.
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Terror huh? Haha.
Kind of funny if you think like this: Singapore sometimes talks about it's security against terrorism...but our banks are being robbed by locals recently. Kind of weird thinking about it...
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I am thinking that there is a possibility that terrorists may attempt to rob our banks to finance their ops in Singapore.If that is the case in this recent robbery then we may be in trouble.
