5/01/2008

Navy's Second US Carrier, Tehran

Navy Adds Carrier in Gulf as "Reminder" to Iran http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/043008J.shtml
David Morgan, of Reuters, reports: "the US Navy has temporarily added a secondaircraft carrier in the Gulf as a 'reminder' to Iran, but this was not anescalation of American forces in the region, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates saidon Tuesday. Speaking to reporters during a trip to Mexico, Gates flatly denied asuggestion that the presence of two US carriers in the Gulf could be a precursorto military action against Tehran."

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