10:12 AM EDT, October 11, 2008
MOSCOW (AP) _ Russian officials say a submarine-launched ballistic missile has made a record flight, hitting a target in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for the first time.

President Dmitry Medvedev witnessed the test, part of naval exercises being staged in the northern Barents Sea.

Russian TV showed what it said was the Sineva missile launching from the submarine Tula. Medvedev said Saturday it flew more than 7,100 miles into the Pacific near the equator.

Medvedev also was quoted by Russian news agencies as ordering naval officials to begin building new aircraft carriers.

A Russian flotilla is heading to the Caribbean Sea for joint exercises with Venezuela — the largest such Russian deployment to the Western Hemisphere since the Cold War.

Russia: sub-launched ballistic missile makes record flight, hitting Pacific target -- Newsday.com

Severomorsk (península de Kola), 11 de octubre, RIA Novosti. El presidente de Rusia y comandante en jefe de sus Fuerzas Armadas, Dmitri Medvédev, llegó a bordo del crucero portaviones "Almirante Kuznetsov" que salió al mar de Barents donde se realizarán ejercicios tácticos de la Flota del Norte rusa, informó hoy la oficina de prensa de la Flota.



Medvédev arribó en helicóptero acompañado por el ministro de Defensa de Rusia, Anatoli Serdiukov, y el comandante de la Marina de Guerra de Rusia, Vladímir Visotski.



El presidente recorrió el crucero, tomó conocimiento con el armamento y aparatos aéreos que el "Almirante Kuznetsov" lleva a su bordo. En particular, le mostraron el caza Su 33 y el helicóptero antisubmarinos Ka 27.



Medvédev participará en la supervisión de las maniobras tácticas "El Dvina", las que la Flota del Norte realiza en el marco de los ejercicios estratégicos de altos mandos "Estabilidad 2008".



En los ejercicios "El Dvina" participan más de 5 mil efectivos, ocho buques, cinco submarinos de diversas clases, 11 aviones: Tu 142, Il 38, Su 33 y Su 25 embarcados y helicópteros Ka 27 y Mi 8.



Los ejercicios se efectúan para ensayar el empleo de las unidades de la Flota del Norte, incluidas sus fuerzas nucleares, en las misiones de disuasión estratégica y regional.

RIA Novosti - DEFENSA-SEGURIDAD - Medvédev arribó a la Flota del Norte para asistir a ejercicios tácticos

algo se esta moviendo ultimamente, por el mundo.

Hay que encontrar el nuevo eje del mal para ponerle rostro y poder atacar, quien sera? rusia? pakistan? los enemigos de israel?

Soldados camboyanos y tailandeses intercambian disparos en la frontera | elmundo.es




Un camboyano muerto y cuatro tailandeses heridos tras un tiroteo entre las tropas de ambos países | El Periódico de Catalunya | Internacional

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Fuerza Aérea de Irán pone en marcha un ejercicio de envergadura

Teherán, 15 de octubre, RIA Novosti. La Fuerza Aérea de Irán comenzará el próximo jueves, 17 de octubre, un ejercicio de envergadura al noroeste del país para demostrar su poderío combativo, informó hoy la prensa iraní.
En las maniobras, que se desarrollarán en la región de la ciudad de Tabriz, participarán cazas F-4, F-5, F-7 y F-14 de fabricación estadounidense, cazas iraníes Saeghe, aparatos rusos Sukhoi y aviones cisterna Boeing-707.
Durante el ejercicio se utilizarán las bases aérea ubicadas en las ciudades de Teherán, Isfagan, Tabriz y Hamadan.
RIA Novosti - Últimas noticias - Fuerza Aérea de Irán pone en marcha un ejercicio de envergadura

Los servicios de inteligencia de EEUU acusan a Irán de estar detrás de varios ataques terroristas y de crear programas de armas químicas y biológicas.

U.S. official has new evidence of Iranian meddling in Iraq - CNN.com

Líder talibán abatido por los SAS era también un oficial del ejército Pakistaní.

British officials covered up evidence that a Taliban commander killed by special forces in Helmand last year was in fact a Pakistani military officer, according to highly placed Afghan officials.

The commander, targeted in a compound in the Sangin valley, was one of six killed in the past year by SAS and SBS forces. When the British soldiers entered the compound they discovered a Pakistani military ID on the ******

It was the first physical evidence of covert Pakistani military operations against British forces in Afghanistan even though Islamabad insists it is a close ally in the war against terror.

Britain’s refusal to make the incident public led to a row with the Afghan president Hamid Karzai, who has long accused London of viewing Afghanistan through the eyes of Pakistani military intelligence, which is widely believed to have been helping the Taliban.

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“He feels he has been telling everyone about Pakistan for the past six years and here was the evidence, yet London refused to release it, because they care more about their relations with Islamabad than Kabul,” said a source close to the president. “He knows Britain is worried about inflaming its large Pakistani population, but that is no excuse.”

So furious was Karzai that he threatened to expel British diplomats. When some months later he was informed by the governor of Helmand that British officials were secretly negotiating with the Taliban, he expelled two men and accused Britain of wanting to set up a training camp for former Taliban fighters.

Karzai will visit London next month for talks with Gordon Brown in an attempt to repair the strained relations between the two countries.

“He is very sad about the breakdown of relations with Britain,” said the source. “He loves British culture and poetry, had a British education [at a school in India], likes tea in the afternoon and thinks Gordon Brown is a very decent man, not a cheat.”

British officials in Kabul refused to comment on the allegation that they had covered up the discovery of a Pakistani soldier. They insisted Karzai’s government had been informed of the negotiations with the Taliban, adding that “the camp was just a place for them to be reintegrated, learn about hygiene and things”.

During the war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s, officers from Pakistani military intelligence regularly accompanied Afghan mujaheddin inside Afghanistan and directed operations.

The Afghan claims of Pakistani involvement in Helmand were backed by a senior United Nations official who said he had been told by his superiors to keep quiet after Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN apparently threatened to stop contributing forces to peacekeeping missions. Pakistan is the UN’s biggest supplier of peacekeeping troops.

The coalition’s refusal to confront Pakistan changed after the bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul last July, when 41 people were killed. According to both British and US intelligence, phone intercepts led directly back to an Afghan cell of Pakistan’s military intelligence.

The past month has seen US forces carry out bombings and a ground raid on Pakistani territory. Claims of Pakistan’s involvement were rejected by Asif Durrani, the country’s chargé d’affaires in Kabul. “Afghanistan wants to blame someone else for its problems and Pakistan is just the whipping boy,” he said.

However, repeated accusations from Karzai about Pakistan’s active support for the Taliban have been backed by a senior US marine officer.

Lieutenant-Colonel Chris Nash, who commanded an embedded training team in eastern Afghanistan from June 2007 to March this year, told the Army Times that Pakistani forces flew repeated helicopter missions into Afghanistan to resupply a Taliban base camp during a fierce battle in June last year. Nash said: “We were on the receiving end of Pakistani military D-30 [a howitzer]. On numerous occasions Afghan border police checkpoints and observation posts were attacked by Pakistani military forces.”

Comments by Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith in The Sunday Times last week that a decisive military victory against the Taliban was not possible and negotiations should be opened have received widespread backing.

General Jean-Louis Georgelin, France’s military chief, said: “There is no military solution to the Afghan crisis and I totally share this feeling.”

Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, who initially dismissed the brigadier’s comments as “defeatist”, said on Friday that the US was now prepared to back talks with the Taliban.

Taliban leader killed by SAS was Pakistan officer - Times Online

Otro "ataque de EE.UU." en Pakistán
Un nuevo ataque con misiles -que se cree perpetrado por aviones estadounidenses no tripulados- se registró este jueves contra una casa ubicada en una región tribal en Pakistán, cerca de la frontera con Afganistán.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/int...00/7673442.stm

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Japan concerned over Chinese submarines near maritime borders

TOKYO, October 17 (RIA Novosti) - Chinese submarines have recently increased their activity near Japan's maritime borders in the East China Sea, a Japanese military source said on Friday.

According to the source, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force detected the presence of a Chinese Han-class nuclear-powered submarine and a Song-class diesel attack submarine in the region as the U.S. George Washington nuclear aircraft carrier was heading to the South Korean port of Pusan on a friendly visit.
The USS George Washington is stationed at a U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Japan.

The source said the Chinese submarines did not violate Japanese territorial waters, but described their activities as attempts "to gather data on noise signatures emitted by all automated systems of the U.S. aircraft carrier" and "some sort of intimidation."

In response to the Chinese moves, Tokyo and Washington increased the number of patrol flights by Japan's P-3C Orion ASW aircraft and deployed additional U.S. reconnaissance satellite assets to monitor the area.

The Chinese Navy's submarine fleet includes at least two nuclear-powered attack submarines, and its 13 Song-class submarines are extremely quiet and difficult to detect when running on electric motors.

In October 2006, an undetected Chinese Song-class submarine popped up in the middle of a U.S. task force during an exercise in the Pacific at the distance of only 5 miles from the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier.

The Chinese vessel slipped past at least a dozen other American warships which were supposed to protect the carrier from hostile aircraft or submarines.

RIA Novosti - World - Japan concerned over Chinese submarines near maritime borders

Rusia califica de provocadoras las afirmaciones sobre posible confrontación en el Ártico

Moscú, 22 de octubre, RIA Novosti. El Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Rusia califica de infundadas y provocadoras las afirmaciones de que pueden surgir conflictos armados en el Ártico, declaró hoy en rueda de prensa en RIA Novosti el embajador ruso para misiones especiales y miembro del Comité para Asuntos Árticos, Antón Vasíliev.
"Muchas noticias de prensa sobre una posible confrontación militar en el Ártico - y hasta la tercera guerra mundial - son de carácter demasiado alarmista y provocador. En mi opinión, no existen fundamentos para ese alarmismo", dijo.
"Estamos siguiendo la actividad militar que otros Estados desarrollan en esa región. Al mismo tiempo confiamos en que se impondrá la cooperación", añadió.
Durante la reunión del Consejo de Seguridad de Rusia del pasado mes de septiembre, el presidente Dmitri Medvedev declaró que su país debería empezar las gestiones jurídicas próximamente para demarcar los límites de su plataforma continental en el Ártico.
Indicó que "según los expertos, la plataforma continental del Ártico podría contener cerca de un cuarto de todas las reservas de hidrocarburos del mundo" y que "el uso de estos recursos supone una garantía para la seguridad energética de Rusia en general".
RIA Novosti - Últimas noticias - Rusia califica de provocadoras las afirmaciones sobre posible confrontación en el Ártico