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NEW South Wales Police have formally told the Federal Government that they fear the Garden Island navy base in Sydney is a sitting duck for terrorists. Senior police believe not enough has been done to protect the dock, known as Fleet Base East, from a terror attack by land or water, despite new maritime regulations which came into force on July 1. Police sources have said the base's location, amid the most densely populated suburbs of Australia, and its proximity to pedestrians make it attractive site for terrorists. In particular, the site is seen as attractive to terrorists intending a...

TEHRAN (MNA) -- During the latest season of excavations of the northern gate of Takht-e Suleiman, an ancient Zoroastrian fire temple located in northwestern Iran, the stamps of two seals were discovered which indicate that objects entered Takht-e Suleiman from other regions with special tags attached to them which seem to be advertisements. They signify that an early form of advertising was being practiced during the Sassanid era (224-642 C.E.), Yusef Moradi, the head of the excavation team, said on Friday. “The team began its excavations in early August and found the stamps of two seals at the upper levels...

Secrets of an ancient Persian armada sunk off the coast of Greece 2500 years ago are being dredged up by modern archaeologists. A team from Greece, Canada and the United States has just completed a second expedition to retrieve artefacts from 300 ships of the Persian King Darius that were wrecked in a storm off the Mt Athos Peninsula, northern Greece, in 492BC or 493BC. Aucklanders will be among the first to hear the results today when three of the expedition leaders present their findings in a free public lecture at Auckland University. In two trips so far, last October...

India's new naval chief said the force urgently needed to replace its aging combat ships, admitting it was facing a desperate shortage of manpower and equipment. "My job is to see that the navy stays in fine fettle," Admiral Arun Prakash told a press conference in New Delhi, his first since taking office last month. "We need to arrest declining force levels, which will keep going down till 2012 as aging ships get decommissioned. We have got 150 ships, we need to sustain that level," he added on Wednesday. According to the navy, fleet strength will shrink to 127 warships...

Three Royal Navy vessels 'seized by Iran'(Filed: 21/06/2004) The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that it is investigating reports that three Royal Navy vessels have been seized by Iran. HMS Brocklesby on patrol in the northern Persian Gulf last March The Iranians were said to have arrested eight Royal Navy crew as well as finding weapons and maps on board the vessels. The state-run satellite station Al-Alam was reported to have said that the vessels had been detained in Iranian territorial waters near the Shatt al-Arab waterway that divides Iran from Iraq. It described the impounded vessels only as "warships"....

Fri Apr 9, 3:50 PM ET LONDON (AFP) - A brand-new British naval ship saw action rather sooner than expected as it shot across a river after being launched and crunched into the opposite bank. The 16,000-tonne amphibious landing vessel was left with a sizeable dent in its stern after grazing a quayside on the north bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland, just seconds after it was launched. The incident came two days after it was revealed that eight of the Royal Air Force's Chinook helicopters had been grounded because they were not equipped to fly in cloudy...

Warships are first casualty as spending cuts hit Navy By Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent (Filed: 06/01/2004) The Royal Navy is to lose at least four destroyers in the next three months, taking the number of surface warships to below that of the French navy for the first time since the 17th century. It will now have only 28 escort ships compared to the French navy's 32 and will no longer be able to mount major operations unless it is fighting alongside either the Americans or the French.Four Type-42 destroyers are to be mothballed as part of a series of cuts...

LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - British warships during the Falklands War in 1982 carried nuclear depth charges, but the weapons never entered the territorial waters of any Latin American nation, the ministry of Defense said on Friday. "The weapons were type WE177 nuclear depth charges. They were on the task force when it sailed south but never entered the territorial waters of the Falkland Islands or any South American country," a spokesman told Reuters. "The decision was taken to transfer them to other ships heading back home," he added, stressing that there had never been any intention of using the...

US warships sail into Monrovia as Taylor finally goes By Declan Walsh in Monrovia 12 August 2003 Up to the last moment many Liberians could hardly believe it was true. But after six years of destructive rule, Charles Taylor surrendered power to his deputy, Moses Blah, at his executive mansion yesterday and flew into exile abroad. Almost immediately, the momentum for a peaceful solution to Liberia's war started to spin faster. Three US warships sailed before the shores of Monrovia, causing joyful residents to flood onto the city's rubbish-strewn beaches to watch them pass. Two large helicopters rose from the...

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<p>November 23, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - The newest prize al Qaeda captive has given U.S. intelligence agents chilling details about massive terrorist plots to attack commercial and military ships in the Persian Gulf region with planes and scuba divers, The Post has learned.</p>

Announcing the "Canteen's very own"USS Tarawa LHA 1National Geographic Documentary! WARSHIP Premieres on MSNBCThis Sunday night March 2, 20038 and 11 PM EST Brian reports he is not the star, in fact he wasn't even interviewed. :)That's okay.I am here to remind bkwells he will always be the Star of the Canteen!It's true that the Senior Chief is our special FRiend and indeed we pray for and support the entire Tarawa GroupSo grab the popcorn and whatever your drinking and enjoy the show! PREMIERE AIRS SUNDAY ON Click below for more about the show

PORT SAID, Egypt: Seven US warships crossed the Suez Canal on Tuesday heading to the Gulf to join the US military buildup in preparation for a possible attack on Iraq. The seven amphibious ships, based in Norfolk, Virginia, carry more than 4,750 sailors and 7,000 Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade. They are the USS Kearsarge, Bataan, Saipan, Ponce, Gunston Hall, Ashland and Portland. In Washington, defence officials said on Monday that the USS Abraham Lincoln, one of the Navy's latest Nimitz-class carriers with more than 5,000 sailors and naval aviators aboard, had re-entered the Arabian Sea over the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some U.S. bombers, fighter jets and warships have been alerted for possible deployment to the western Pacific to deter any aggression by North Korea in case of a war in Iraq, U.S. defense officials said on Monday. The officials told Reuters that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had not issued any final orders to move B-52 bombers, F-16 fighter jets or naval units closer to the tense Korean peninsula, now gripped in a nuclear crisis. The additional forces have been requested by Adm. Thomas Fargo, based in Hawaii as head of U.S. forces in the Pacific and Asia...

Russian warships to head to Gulf 13/01/2003 - 9:36:16 am Russia’s Pacific Fleet is reportedly sending two warships to the Persian Gulf next month ahead of possible US military action against Iraq. Two anti-submarine ships and a tanker are due to leave in the second half of February, a navy official told the Interfax-Military News Agency today. He said ships from other Russian fleets could also take part in the deployment. The ships will be given the task of "protecting Russia’s national interests in the region in the event of the escalation of an armed conflict between the United...

Russian warships on standby to sail to Gulf Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow Friday January 10, 2003 The Guardian Russia has put three warships on standby to go to the Persian Gulf within the next month to protect its "national interests" in the event of an American invasion of Iraq. Russia's Pacific fleet has been ordered by the central command to prepare two cruisers and a fuel tanker for immediate deployment to the Gulf. The move will heighten tension between Moscow and Washington, who both have interests in Iraq's oilfields. The Marshal Shaposhnikov and the Admiral Panteleyev cruisers would be...

Warships hunt for bin Laden's shadowy fleet By David Rennie (Filed: 01/01/2003) American intelligence agencies have identified 15 cargo ships used by al-Qa'eda to transport explosives and fighters around the world, it was reported yesterday. The discovery has triggered a global hunt for the ships, which constantly change their names and even hull colours. Intelligence agencies, backed by dozens of American and allied warships, are on non-stop patrol in the Arabian Sea seeking Osama bin Laden's shadowy navy, officials told The Washington Post. The search is now one of the largest naval hunts since the Second World War. America is...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's navy announced on Tuesday that it is negotiating with China to buy an unspecified number of F-22 frigates, warships the military said would help fend off "a treacherous enemy". A brief navy statement about the deal did not provide details about the ships or say how many vessels would be purchased and at what price. A navy spokesman declined to give further information. But the statement said, "The government has accorded approval to carry out negotiations, which are underway, and very soon these latest state-of-the-art ships will be flying the Pakistani flag." The navy would not say when...

<p>Arab states don't have the option of cutting off oil supplies to support the Palestinians in their conflict with Israel, because doing so would cut off oil revenue needed to fund any resistance, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said Tuesday in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde.</p>