Posted on 05/17/2007 2:05:06 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
In 1987, two Iraqi Exocet missiles hit the frigate USS Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 seamen. Iraq apologized for mistaking the ship's identity and the Stark's top officers were reprimanded and retired.
For more information about USS Stark, and the other little-known events of the 1987-1988 Persian Gulf, visit www.insidethedangerzone.com.
I have written a book about that time period. The title is Inside the Danger Zone and it was published this month by Naval Institute Press. After Stark, the situation evolved into a naval quasi-war with Iran.
Weren’t the French & the US on the same side during that war????IIRC,Reagan accepted the Iraqi apology ordered the USN to take out Iran’s navy.Making Saddam’s life far more easy.
You would hope so, but with the French, who knows what side of Western civilization that they’re on.
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