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(746 diggs) Iranian boats ''provoke'' U.S. Navy ships in Hormuz: CNN
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil shipping route off the Iranian coast, over the weekend, CNN reported on Monday. Citing unidentified U.S....
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil shipping route off the Iranian coast, over the weekend, CNN reported on Monday. Citing unidentified U.S....
(867 diggs) video of Iranian small boats harrasing U.S. Warships
here's to the well trained Sailors who waited for the order to fire. It takes a hell of alot of self control to see a boat coming at your ship at a high rate of speed and not fire on him before he lets loose on you.
here's to the well trained Sailors who waited for the order to fire. It takes a hell of alot of self control to see a boat coming at your ship at a high rate of speed and not fire on him before he lets loose on you.
(1142 diggs) Iran releases its own video of US Navy boat incident
Iranian state TV aired video Thursday purporting to show a weekend standoff between small Iranian boats and U.S. naval ships in the Persian Gulf.
Iranian state TV aired video Thursday purporting to show a weekend standoff between small Iranian boats and U.S. naval ships in the Persian Gulf.
(1586 diggs) Obama Approved Special Forces Team to Save Boat Captain
A senior US official tells me that President Barack Obama approved a recommendation by Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen to dispatch special forces to the US scene on Friday. Captain Phillips is now safe aboard a U.S. vessel. It's "going to make a great movie," a U.S. official adds.
A senior US official tells me that President Barack Obama approved a recommendation by Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen to dispatch special forces to the US scene on Friday. Captain Phillips is now safe aboard a U.S. vessel. It's "going to make a great movie," a U.S. official adds.
(1156 diggs) RIP, World. Bush was in Office, and a Heckler started WWIII
Threats to US ships in the Strait of Hormuz heard at the end of a Pentagon-released recording of an incident between Iranian patrol boats and US Navy warships last week may have been the work of a local heckler known as the "Filipino Monkey", The Navy Times has reported.
Threats to US ships in the Strait of Hormuz heard at the end of a Pentagon-released recording of an incident between Iranian patrol boats and US Navy warships last week may have been the work of a local heckler known as the "Filipino Monkey", The Navy Times has reported.