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This December 1997 file photo shows a Tupolev-160 bomber during a combat training flight near the Engels air force base in the Saratov region of Russia. Story Published: Jul 24, 2008 at 7:35 AM PDT HAVANA (AP) - Ailing Fidel Castro said Wednesday that Cuba's president was right to adopt a "dignified silence" over a Moscow newspaper report that Russia may send nuclear bombers to the island, and said Cuba doesn't owe any explanation to Washington about the story. In a brief, cryptic essay posted on a government Web site Wednesday night, the 81-year-old former president neither confirmed nor denied the Monday report in Izvestia newspaper. Moscow is angry about U.S. plans for missile-defense sites in eastern Europe and Izvestia cited a "highly placed" military aviation source as saying, "While they are deploying the anti-missile... [read full story]
