Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Is Iran preparing for suicide attacks against our navy?

"They have increased the number of submarines ... they increased the number of fast attack craft," Vice Admiral Mark Fox told reporters. "Some of the small boats have been outfitted with a large warhead that could be used as a suicide explosive device. The Iranians have a large mine inventory."

"We have watched with interest their development of long range rockets and short, medium and long range ballistic missiles and of course ... the development of their nuclear programme," Fox, who heads the U.S. Fifth Fleet, said at a briefing on the fleet's base in the Gulf state of Bahrain. Read more here: http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=11546739#editor/target=post;postID=8388011838692331995

Update: The U.S. carrier group Abraham Lincoln sailed through the Gulf of Hormuz Tuesday:  http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/14/us-usa-iran-hormuz-idUSTRE81D1PE20120214

1 comment:

Terri Wagner said...

In a word, yes.