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To: NickSE who wrote (240)	3/4/2003 6:04:24 PM
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U.S. orders 24 long-range bombers to Guam Deployment planned to send message to North Korea cnn.com WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Twenty-four bombers will begin moving from bases in the United States to Guam as part of a planned beefing up of U.S. military forces in the Pacific, the Pentagon said Tuesday. It is not clear how soon they will deploy. The deployment order for the bombers had long been planned and is not related to the recent intercept of an Air Force reconnaissance plane over the Sea of Japan by four North Korean MiG fighters, officials said. [.....] U.S. Considers Escorts for Spy Planes abcnews.go.com The United States is considering whether to send fighter jet escorts with reconnaissance planes near North Korea after jets from the communist country intercepted an American surveillance flight and shadowed it for 20 minutes, Pentagon officials said Tuesday. A White House spokesman said the U.S. plans a formal protest of North Korea's "reckless actions" in sending MiG fighters close to a U.S. RC-135S surveillance plane Sunday. [....] USS Carl Vinson will operate in Western Pacific, Navy says (2/9/03) stripes.osd.mil The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson is moving toward Japan to fill the spot normally occupied by the U.S. 7th Fleet’s USS Kitty Hawk, which has orders for the Persian Gulf, where it’ll join four other carriers already in or near the region. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld directed the Vinson to the Pacific to keep North Korea in check and serve as an immediate response to any needs that might arise from that precarious situation, according to various media reports. [....]