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Russians are saying: "We're still a power"
Russian Attack-Subs Stalked U.S. Coasts Last
Year
Special to the Fatima Network
 "U.S. intelligence agencies detected what some officials are calling
an ‘unprecedented' deployment of two Russian submarines off U.S. coasts
last year," said Bill Gertz in the Feb. 4, Washington Times.
There were two
reported incidents.
First, a Russian Oscar II-class submarine sailed from northern
Russia last summer to the Mediterranean, then on to areas off the eastern
United States.
"We played with it," said one military officer, referring to the
silent underwater tracking efforts of U.S. hunter-submarines.
A second Oscar II
submarine sailed from the Russian Far East and lingered around Hawaii, home
port of the U.S. 7th Fleet, in time for a U.S. missile test over the Pacific.
Then, the Russian submarine sailed to waters off San Diego where in October
1999, it spent a week following U.S. warships based there.
It is reported that
the Russian subs were monitoring closely the aircraft carrier USS John C.
Stennis and the amphibious landing ship Essex. "It was watching the Stennis and
the Essex," one official told Gertz.
"The submarine was engaged in intelligence collection
operations as well as ship-targeting," the Washington Times reported.
After the Southern
California deployment, the Oscar II went north to waters near Washington's
Puget Sound, home port for U.S. ballistic missile submarines.
U.S. intelligence
analysts viewed the unusual submarine deployments as Russia's negative reaction
to NATO. "The Russians were saying 'We're still a power,' " the official said.
"The boats
are among Russia's most modern and lethal attack submarines. They are equipped
with 24 SSN-19 Shipwreck cruise missiles and high-explosive or nuclear warheads
that travel up to 345 miles at nearly twice the speed of sound," said the
Times.
The
submarine also is capable of firing long-range torpedoes that can home in on
the wake of a ship and can travel at speeds up to 30 knots.
The last time a
similar deployment was reported was July 1997 when the Oscar II submarine Pekov
shadowed several U.S. aircraft carriers off Washington state.
Bill Gertz is the
defense and national security reporter for the Washington Times, and author of
the best-selling 1999 book Betrayed: How the Clinton Administration Undermined
American Security. He chronicles in his writings the ongoing military threat
from both Communist China and Russia.
This "ongoing military threat" testifies to the fact
that Russia is not converted.
Sister Lucy of
Fatima speaking in 1957 to Father Fuentes said "Many times, the Blessed Virgin
Mary told me and my cousins, Jacinta and Francisco, that Russia is the
instrument of chastisement chosen by Heaven to punish the whole world (for its
sins) if we do not beforehand obtain the conversion of that poor nation."
Father Nicholas
Gruner, the International Director of the world's largest Fatima organization,
explains that the only way we can obtain the conversion of Russia and the
"period of peace" promised to mankind is through the collegial consecration of
Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by the Pope in union with the bishops of
the world, in the manner that Our Lady has requested, a consecration that has
yet to be accomplished.
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