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August 19, 2005
Missile Fired At US Navy Ship In Jordan
The BBC reports a missile was fired at the USS Ashland docked in the Jordanian port of Aqaba:

"I can confirm that a rocket flew over the bow of USS Ashland and the rocket impacted in the roof of a warehouse. No sailors or marines were injured," said Commander Breslau, of the US Fifth Fleet.

[. . .]

The USS Ashland and its sister amphibious ship, the USS Kearsarge, have been docked in Aqaba, Jordan's only sea port, for the past 10 days, witnesses said.

Both ships are reported to have left the port in response to the attack.

According to Bloomberg, second rocket landed at the airport in the neighboring Israeli city of Eilat at about 8:45 a.m. local time, partly exploding and causing unspecified damage.

From California Yankee.

Posted by Dan Spencer at August 19, 2005 09:01 AM | TrackBack
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