Friday, August 8, 2008

Kuwait on Red Alert

Is that a soft-swerve swirley that just hit the proverbial whirlybird?

"TWO ADDITIONAL U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIERS HEADED TO MIDEAST

Two additional United States naval aircraft carriers are heading to the Gulf and the Red Sea, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper Kuwait Times.

Kuwait began finalizing its “emergency war plan” on being told the vessels were bound for the region....

Meanwhile, the Arabic news agency Moheet reported at the end of July that an unnamed American destroyer, accompanied by two Israeli naval vessels traveled through the Suez Canal from the Mediterranean. A week earlier, a US nuclear submarine accompanied by a destroyer and a supply ship moved into the Mediterranean, according to Moheet.

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