So, the Beeb reports Russian Tu-95 rec aircraft buzzed Guam
They most likely went to check on how Valiant Shield '07 is going - the summer's three aircraft carrier exercise off Guam.
Stennis, Nimitz and Kitty Hawk are there, while the Enterprise just cleared the Suez Canal and is hovering outside the Persian Gulf. So the Gulf now has no carriers, which apparently has some of the emirates on the coast in a tizzy, since they were under the impress there'd be a permanent carrier shield in the Gulf between them and Iran.
According to the unreliable Debka file, foreign observers were excluded from this year's exercise, and the exercise scenario is operations against Iran.
Another current Debka story manages to simultaneously assert that the Russians are holding back fuel rods for the Bushehr reactor so as to not provide an excuse for the US to attack, and that the Bushehr reactor is a red herring as far as Iran's weapons program goes, and that the Russians have already delivered fuel rods for the reactor, per earlier Debka story.
Weird.
If the Stennis and Nimitz leave for the US west coast, as they should, then the US can do nothing serious to Iran until spring, barring "emergencies".
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They're up to their old Bearish tricks over the North Sea again, too.
I spent an entertaining few days sailing with a former RAF navigator who told some hair raising tales of the 'good old days' intercepting Bears in Phantoms, then shooting down an RAF Jaguar with a sparrow (or sidewinder)'by accident' while 'playing dogfights' on the way home.