United States Coast Guard Vessel In Persian Gulf
Turns Away Three Iranian Vessels
Friday, April 11, 2008A United States Coast Guard vessel, USS Typhoon (PC 5), had to fire off a flare to warn away three small, unidentified boats, which were visibly approaching the American patrol ship in the Persian Gulf on Thursday. According to various media reports, the boats were Iranian...
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AFP.Google.com has this take on the story and it starts off like this... A US patrol boat fired a warning flare to repel three approaching speed boats in the Gulf, the Navy said Friday, where Iranian vessels have in the past played cat-and-mouse with passing US warships... The USS Typhoon, a Coast Guard patrol boat, was heading from the central to the northern Gulf when it was approached late Thursday by the high-speed boats, said Lieutenant Nathan Christensen, a spokesman for the US Fifth Fleet...
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US navy turns away boats in Gulf, Iran denies confrontation
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