Are the Migs coming to dinner? . . . Tonight !?!

A friend just told me that CNN broadcast a bulletin about an hour ago that Russian fighter jets had been intercepted in American airspace. Apparently Wolf Blitzer made a comment to the effect that it was time for Bush to get on the red phone to his old friend. My friend says the bulletin has not been broadcast again. She thinks the intercept took place in
Alaskan airspace but is not sure.

How about that?

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And? Russia has been flying a lot of PEACEFUL missions off Alaska for months now. And how do we know they AREN'T coming to dinner? Whenever MiGs would come to an airshow in the US they were escorted from Alaska, until they left US airpace in Alaska on their way home. They did this for years. The first few times it was a huge deal, later it was so routine they didn't even talk about it anymore.

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Somebody should tell this to those clowns at CNN. Are they trying to scare all of us on something as routine as that? Doesn't anybody at CNN know the history of the cold war? Heads should role over this, unless there is something more to it.

I'm going back to the basement now.





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It's called fear mongering. They keep you scared, so you keep tuned into the news and they get higher ratings. This is what happened post 9/11. Everyone was so scared that they kept the news turned on 24 hours a day, and the news channels had amazing ratings and got lots of money from advertisers. The more scared they keep you the more likely you are to watch them.

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Maybe this is Bush preparing his legacy. He wants to be remembered as the guy whose fighter jets intercepted the bad guys, not as the klutz whose fighter jests let the baddies through.

Someone else has posted the news article in this thread

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Michelle

Actually from the sound of things they're two different stories. The Nimitz is in the Western Pacific somewhere West of Hawaii, and from what he said in the OP this happened in American airspace, which probably means Alaska.

Yeah, I saw the other thread. What I am talking about was broadcast once only I believe on CNN, tonight, Monday Feb. 11/08, somewhere between 5 and 6 PM. I didn't hear it myself. A friend told me about it. She thought it was strange. Especially how it was quickly dropped.

Update: Just talked to my friend again. She said the broadcast we are talking about led off with a reference to the overflight of the Nimitz referred to above.

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ooooooo seperate incidents....

I don't think this is really a big deal. They have been flying into Alaskan, Norwegain and Canadian airspace regularly since last summer. Its training missions to test their newly upgraded bombers on long range missions.

The news have to keep people hooked on something. Britney Spears and Terrorists are't doing the job, so now they are onto Russia's military exercises. Next thing you know Russian jets will be followed around by paparazzi.

Well, tonight ended a coupe of days ago, so I guess they are not coming after all. I guess the only good thing you could say about the CNN report was that it altered the way I think of Dubya. All that 9/11 stuff should be forgotten. Dubyas's airforce can get the job done. Thankya Dubya! As Elvis would say, "Thengya, thengya verra mush."

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Ive been hearing this thread and of types here on this topic for a couple of months now.

I should tell you that during the cold war days it was no big deal to have some 300 plus intercepts of Russian aircraft down the slot between Iceland/Greenland and Iceland/England. From that location these long range aircraft transited down the East coast of American on to Cuba.
These Russian aircraft were often intercepted or handed off to American aircraft out of the state of Maine...here in Virginia and then down off the coast of Florida.
The Russians in those days had some very long range aircraft as they made this trip from Russia to Cuba ..non stop.

I do not know what the intercept rate was in Alaska..but I do know that in those cold war days Alaska and Iceland were the two most active air intercept regions of the world between the Russians and the US.

This is nothing more than CNN....Chicken Noodle News.... playing/parasiting off the fear and ignorance of the average uninformed American....and there are alot of Americans who fit this bill.

I was in the 57 Fighter Interceptor Squadron...Black Knights in Keflavik Iceland and would daily see the intercept charts in the hallways of the operations building. High two hundreds to low three hundreds was not unusual in numbers per year. THey would often intercept two or three aircraft coming down the slot at a time. It got to be pretty routine.

Our guys would often flip them the bird through their canopys and the Russians would do likewise through thier plexiglass. Very diplomatic ...very formal!! Fortunately ..no one was stupid enough to pull the trigger...as they carried hot ones on the rails.

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