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Navy Fires Warning Flare as Iranian Boat Approaches in Persian Gulf

Friday, April 11, 2008

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy says one of its ships encountered a small Iranian high-speed boat in the central Persian Gulf. The Navy says the boat stayed away after the ship fired a flare.

Two other similar Iranian boats in the area did not approach as closely.

The USS Typhoon tried unsuccessfully to establish radio contact with the Iranian boat after it came within an estimated 200 yards of the Typhoon on Thursday, outside Iranian territorial waters. A Navy official says the ship then fired the flare and continued on its way northward without incident.

The official said Friday that the Iranian boats did not appear to have been armed.

It was at least the second U.S. Navy encounter with an aggressive Iranian high-speed boat this year. In January, Iranian boats made what the Navy called provocative moves near a U.S. ship in the Strait of Hormuz.


531 posted on 04/11/2008 10:52:31 AM PDT by drymans wife (They is nothing like the mind of a TM;'er)
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Satellite Photos Show ‘Secret Launch Site’ for Iran’s Long-Range Missiles

Friday, April 11, 2008

The secret site where Iran is suspected of developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching targets in Europe has been uncovered by new satellite photographs.

The imagery has pinpointed the facility from where the Iranians launched their Kavoshgar 1 “research rocket” on Feb. 4, claiming that it was in connection with their space program.

Analysis of the photographs taken by the Digital Globe QuickBird satellite, four days after the launch has revealed a number of intriguing features that indicate to experts that it is the same site where Iran is focusing its efforts on developing a ballistic missile with a range of about 4,000 miles.

A previously unknown missile location, the site, about 143 miles southeast of Tehran, and the link with Iran’s long-range program, was revealed by Jane’s Intelligence Review after a study of the imagery by a former Iraq weapons inspector. A close examination of the photographs has indicated that the Iranians are following the same path as North Korea, pursuing a space program that enables Tehran to acquire expertise in long-range missile technology.

Geoffrey Forden, a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said that there was a recently constructed building on the site, about 130 feet long, which was similar in form and size to the Taepodong long-range missile assembly facility in North Korea.

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532 posted on 04/11/2008 10:56:56 AM PDT by drymans wife (They is nothing like the mind of a TM;'er)
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Navy Fires Warning Flare as Iranian Boat Approaches in Persian Gulf

They play with fire, they are going to get burned.

533 posted on 04/11/2008 10:57:05 AM PDT by Godzilla (The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.)
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To: drymans wife

Ooops...scrolling up...thanks drymans wife.
You got this already.


550 posted on 04/11/2008 4:33:10 PM PDT by Cindy
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