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Suicide speedboat intercepted by Iran Saddam's vessel with 1/2-ton of explosives caught on river, trio of others elude capture. U.S. and British naval forces are on high alert against seaside suicide attacks after Iranian gunboats intercepted an Iraqi speedboat packed with half a ton of high explosives. Three other Iraqi speedboats got away when Iranian forces engaged Iraqis at the mouth of the Shatt-al-Arab River, the waterway that marks the border between the two countries. The explosives were discovered after one of the Iraqi boats was run aground during the confrontation. Coalition warships in the region have been on high...