The Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bombers landed at Venezuela's Libertador military airfield and "will spend several days carrying out training flights over neutral waters, after which they will return to the base, " the ministry added.
Myers offered some proof of that assessment, displaying three photographs of damaged or destroyed targets -- including an al Qaeda terrorist training camp near Kandahar, a SAM anti-aircraft missile site near the Kandahar airport, and an airfield in Shindand, Western Afghanistan.