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| Guided missile frigate, destroyer pass Suez |
| 2003-02-25 |
| A U.S. guided missile frigate and a destroyer have passed through the Suez Canal on their way to the Gulf region, where the United States is building up forces for a possible war on Iraq, canal sources said yesterday. Frigate USS Carr and destroyer USS Oscar Austin left the crucial waterway, linking the Mediterra-nean to the Red Sea, on Sunday evening. They were followed by three Italian warships and a Danish submarine, the sources said. Denmark and Italy are two of the few countries of the world so far supporting the U.S. war plans. Welcome to the party, boys! The USS Carr is part of a battle group headed by the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which left for the Gulf earlier this month from Puerto Rico. It is currently in the Mediterranean. The destroyer USS Oscar Austin is part of a group accompanying the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman, also in the Mediterranean. U.S. Defence Department officials have said the two aircraft carriers were part of a contingent of five being sent to the Gulf region. Two of them are currently in Gulf waters. The TR and Truman are in the Med. Constellation and Kitty Hawk are around the Gulf region. Carriers typically deploy about 75 warplanes and are shepherded by a half-dozen or so cruisers, destroyers and submarines with long-range Toma-hawk cruise missiles. Putting the missile shooters in the Gulf. Too much risk to launch Tomahawks across Israel and Jordan. Lebanon and Syria might have heart failure if we shot across them. Heh. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 I believe the De Gaulle suffered corrosion damage due to its unforseen exposure to saltwater |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-02-25 17:31:58 |
| #2 The French Naval Task Force "Le Poulet" has returned to Toulon. |
| Posted by: Frank Martin 2003-02-25 16:18:32 |
| #1 What, no French aircraft carrier? |
| Posted by: Raj 2003-02-25 15:06:02 |