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SARDAR FADAVI, Iranian admiral, on U.S.-led naval exercises in the gulf, which were answered by Iran's test-firing of new missiles...
...derogatory term "macaca" to describe a South Asian Webb supporter who attended an Allen campaign event; his alleged use of racial slurs in the 1970s; the Jewish roots of his mother; and "a horny woman's dream," the term Webb used to describe the dorms at the U.S Naval Academy in a 1979 article arguing against allowing women into combat. And lately it has degenerated further, if that's possible, into nasty charges about passionate prose and alleged arrests. Last week Republicans started attacking the war novels Webb has written, suggesting the sexual scenes they depict are insulting to women...
...Games in Gulf Interception practice planned Days after Iran announced an expansion of its nukes program, the U.S., Britain and several Arab allies plan to hold naval exercises in the Persian Gulf. Goal: to practice stopping ships carrying WMDs...
...timing of the complicated naval exercise, which may be partly visible from Iran's coastline, is not an accident. It is clearly meant as a signal to Tehran that its neighbors are prepared to move aggressively to prevent it from obtaining the parts and materials necessary to advance its uranium enrichment process - a process the U.S. and many of its allies believe, but Iran denies, is ultimately intended to develop nuclear weapons...
Early on Oct. 18, five suicide boats, disguised as fishing vessels and crewed by members of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (l.t.t.e.), attacked a navy base near the picturesque Sri Lankan town of Galle. The raid?which destroyed two naval speedboats and killed one sailor?came just 72 hours after 100 sailors died in a suicide attack on a naval convoy, the deadliest in the nation's history. This violence dims hopes for a cease-fire in Sri Lanka's civil war, and further threatens its vital tourism industry, ravaged by war and by the 2004 tsunami. Tourism...