This is revised from an earlier post of the same title:


I had a dream at 3:20 pm CDT Friday, in which a Russian air force
pilot stationed in southern former "Soviet Union," like Odessa in
Ukraine, was carefully cleaning his "dilapidated" Mig Jet. It was
made clear in the dream that both the pilot and the visiting Russian
Officers wanted everyone to believe (erroneously) that this
represented about the best they had, the best they could do...

Lao Tzu said "when you are strong, appear weak; if you are weak
appear strong," etc. Jesus Christ echoes this in Section 45 of D&C
when he says "And now I say unto you, keep these things from going
abroad unto the world until it is expedient in me, that ye may
accomplish this work in the eyes of the people, and in the eyes of
your enemies, that they may not know your works until ye have
accomplished the thing which I have commanded you..."


Jordan B. Smith

Independence, Missouri




Remember Russia?
7916 Re: Article: Russian jets "dog" U.S. planes
twelvestorm1@y...
Tue 9/11/2001 7910 URGENT: U.S. jets "dogfight" Russians near Alaska
7910> twelvestorm1@y...
Mon 9/10/2001 7843 !!!! US sending jets to monitor Russian Air Forc
twelvestorm1@y...
Sun 9/9/2001 7609 Israeli forces on alert; Russia to "contribute"?
twelvestorm1@y... Tue 9/4/2001





From: twelvestorm1@y...
Date: Fri Sep 14, 2001 6:18 am
Subject: F16 overhead now; Remember Russia?



An F16 or F15 just screamed overhead here in Independence,
Missouri, headed South I guess. It's the first I've seen
that, although I have read that combat aircraft are patrolling
the skies all around the U.S. now. When we moved here in 1975,
my father soon had a dreamvision of U.S. and Soviet jets dogfighting
over Kansas City. "So real!" he said.

Pakistan just closed their biggest airport to move military
equipment; the U.S. has pleaded to use their airspace etc.
for an attack on Afhanistanistan. From Alexander the Great and
before and after, Afghanistan has been a jagged rock that the
world's greatest armies have been dashed upon.


And also:

Russia bombers to probe U.S. defenses

Russian strategic bombers were deployed recently to a Far Eastern
airfield and are expected to test U.S. air defenses during large-
scale nuclear exercises this week, according to U.S. intelligence
officials.
The strategic war games began Monday with flights of long-range
Tu-160 Blackjack and Tu-95 Bear H bombers, along with Tu-22 medium-
range maritime bombers. The exercises are expected to be larger than
nuclear strike exercises held in December.
The Blackjacks were moved recently to Andyr air base in the
Russian arctic. The bombers are expected to fly routes over the polar
icecap toward Canada to test out the North American Aerospace Defense
Command warning system, known as NORAD.
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http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/vvny/20010912/lo/28114_1.html

Wednesday September 12 06:00 PM EDT

Russian Paper Cites Fear of 'Uncontrollable Escalation'

By James Ridgeway Village Voice Writer

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 12-In the minutes after yesterday's
attacks on New York City and Washington, it appears that the Russian
military went on heightened alert, then later called
off "preparations for war," according to the newspaper Vremya
Novostei.
The article, contained below, was reprinted by a respected e-mail
digest of Russian news, Johnson's Russia List. The digest is created
by David Johnson of the Washington-based Center for Defense
Information.

NUCLEAR CONFLICT SCENARIO SET ASIDE
Russian military ordered not to prepare for attacking the U.S.

Written by Yuri Golotyuk and translated into English by Andrei
Ryabochkin

Following the terrorist attacks, Russia has cancelled its aviation
exercises in the vicinity of the U.S., Canada, Norway, Britain, and
Iceland. But security measures for Russian air space have been
boosted, with direct flights over Moscow and St. Petersburg
prohibited.
According to our senior source in the Defense Ministry, "the first 30
minutes to one hour" after the terrorist attacks in Washington and
New York "were the most dangerous for the world." The U.S. Army
responded by putting troops on full alert.
This could not fail to provoke a response: Russia was automatically
forced to increase the alert status of the troops responsible for
protecting Russian airspace: the air defense and missile-space
defense forces, the Air Force and the Navy; additional shifts were
urgently summoned to command posts of strategic missile forces. Under
current circumstances any provocation, especially on the line
where "responsibility areas" of the Russian Army and the U.S. Army
with its NATO allies intersect, was fraught with the risk of further
uncontrollable escalation of the conflict.
It is hard to judge now at which of these phases the Russian Armed
Forces were ordered to stop these "preparations for war" and cease to
match the alert status of the Americans. To all appearances, the
order was given after the extraordinary Kremlin meeting which
President Putin held with security ministers. After the meeting was
over, the General Staff canceled sailing orders given to naval
underwater and surface forces, and decreased the alert status of the
Air Force.
The command center of the Russian Air Force stated that at the
request of the U.S., the command had made urgent corrections to the
current training exercises of Russian strategic bombers. "Practical
actions in the course of the maneuvers have been canceled," reported
Colonel Drobyshevskii, press secretary of the Air Force command
center. It means that Russian bombers have canceled their flights in
the direction of the U.S., Canada, Norway, Britain, and Iceland. At
the same time, a number of additional measures of intensifying
surveillance over Russia's air space are still in force.
Flights directly over Moscow and St. Petersburg are prohibited (with
the exception of special flights); monitoring of foreign airliners
passing through international air corridors over Russia is
intensified.
According to our sources, the resources of Russia's early missile
warning system have been fully activated (usually the radar stations
operate at 30 to 50 percent of capacity), as well as those which
monitor the U.S. and those which are aimed at the "south missile
threat direction" (primarily the Middle East and the Persian Gulf).
The Russian military intelligence service has been ordered "to use
all capacities to monitor the events": within days, technical
reconnaissance ships must put to sea, while combat crews of the Space
Forces are preparing to launch stored monitoring satellites.



Thursday September 13 4:11 PM ET
Russia Backs Force Against Terrorists

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia said Thursday that it supports the use of
military force to fight terrorism, but stopped short of saying
whether it would join in strikes on terrorist bases.
Russian representatives agreed in Brussels, Belgium, to increase
cooperation with NATO to combat international terrorism following
Tuesday's attacks on the World Trade towers in New York and the
Pentagon.
NATO and Russia ``are united in their resolve not to let those
responsible for such an inhuman act to go unpunished,'' they said in
a statement.
``All possible means must be used to combat terrorism, including
political ones, and, if necessary, the use of force,'' Foreign
Minister Igor Ivanov said after talks in Moscow with French Foreign
Minister Hubert Vedrine.
``Terrorism is a global evil, and we must pool the efforts of the
entire world community to combat it,'' he said.
Ivanov also said Russia backs the idea of convening an emergency
meeting of the Group of Eight to discuss combatting terrorism. The G-
8 consists of the world's seven leading industrialized nations and
Russia.
But Ivanov wouldn't say whether Russia would take part in strikes on
suspected terrorist bases.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, however, said that it was too
early to discuss concrete military participation since the organizers
of the attacks on the United States had not been identified yet.
``We can speak about actions of retribution only after the culprits
are identified,'' he said during a trip to the former Soviet republic
of Armenia. ``We are ready to help in the investigation.''
He said Russia was already doing its part to combat international
terrorism in its war against rebels in the southern region of Chechnya

``We are trying to explain that we are not fighting with the Chechen
people, but precisely with international terrorism, including with
those people who have come to Chechnya from abroad, financed the
bands and provided them with weapons,'' Sergei Ivanov said.
Russian officials have long alleged that Osama bin Laden the
suspected mastermind of attacks on the United States, was helping
train and finance militants in Chechnya. ``We have specific
information about the links between rebels in Chechnya and bin
Laden,'' the defense minister said Thursday.