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USS John F. Kennedy - 1, Dhow - 0
The USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier collided with a dhow in the Arabian Gulf while running night flights in support of U.S. operations in Iraq, the Navy said Friday. The crew of the small boat was missing. | Splat, like a bug on the windshield |
The Navy said none of its sailors were hurt and described the Thursday night collision as an accident. A nearby British warship, the Somerset, sent teams to search for the dhow's crew but had found nothing so far, the Navy said in a statement from its 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain. Fleet spokesman Cmdr. James Graybeal said via telephone that "there is nothing to indicate that this is anything more than a maritime accident." | Maybe a accident, maybe a test to see how close they could get. Since they didn't get caught, next one could be loaded with explosives. It would take a lot to sink a carrier, but a damaged one would be out of action for a while, and would be a propaganda coup. |
In October 2000, suicide attackers detonated explosives on a small boat they had brought alongside the USS Cole destroyer as it refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden. Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed. | Exactly how did this small boat get through the screen and get that close to a carrier? I expect somebody is going to lose his command over this. |
Posted by: Steve 2004-07-23 |
