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Navy: Four U.S. Soldiers Vanish on Boats in Gulf
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| 6/02/2003 10:20 AM
Posted on 06/02/2003 8:14:00 AM PDT by Bayou City
6/02/2003 10:20 AM
Navy: Four U.S. Soldiers Vanish on Boats in Gulf
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy said Monday two small boats carrying four U.S. soldiers and at least three civilians disappeared in northern Gulf waters on Sunday.
The Fifth Fleet said the two boats were heading toward the Shatt al-Arab waterway from Iraq's Mina al-Bakr oil terminal when they vanished.
The navy's Bahrain-based Maritime Liaison Office (MARLO) said in a statement to merchant shipping that the vessels had been on their way to the Iraqi port of Faw to pick up Iraqi oil workers.
The cause of the boats' disappearance was not known.
MARLO said the boats were transporting "one U.S. civilian engineer, four U.S. Army soldiers, two Kuwaiti civilian operators, and possibly one other unidentified person."
The vessels were last seen a mile north of the Mina al-Baker oil terminal.
One of the boats, the Green Star 1, is described as nine meters long with a white hull with two outboard engines.
The second, the Lady Beverly, is of similar size with a "white cigarette boat" style hull.
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Free Republic; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: army; gulf; iraq; missing; soldiers
To: Bayou City
The Boats navigated to the little known Phenomenom as the Gulf Triangle.
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posted on
06/02/2003 8:16:27 AM PDT
by
Zavien Doombringer
(Private First Class - 101st Viking Kitties Airborne...Valhalla!...All The Way!)
To: Bayou City
Saddam sleeps with the fishes.
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posted on
06/02/2003 8:45:02 AM PDT
by
LurkedLongEnough
(All Right now. Baby, it's all Right now. = = Free ==)
To: Bayou City
What could this mean? Hijacking? Explosion from a mine? Sinking?
How tragic for the families to not know where their loved ones went.
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posted on
06/02/2003 8:50:58 AM PDT
by
cgk
(Bob Geldof: "President Bush is radical, in a positive sense. Clinton just screwed everybody.")
To: Bayou City; Zavien Doombringer; LurkedLongEnough
Fox News Alert: 4 US Soldiers on Missing Boat(s) have been Found.
On-screen text only, no story yet.
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posted on
06/02/2003 9:15:42 AM PDT
by
cgk
(Bob Geldof: "President Bush is radical, in a positive sense. Clinton just screwed everybody.")
To: Bayou City
Sounds pretty strange.
To: Eagle Eye
FYI ??
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posted on
06/03/2003 11:21:43 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
To: cgk
**Fox News Alert: 4 US Soldiers on Missing Boat(s) have been Found.**
Alleluia!
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posted on
06/03/2003 11:24:13 PM PDT
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Squantos
Glad they found them. With W's visit tomorrow, all efforts are toward police call and portajohn cleaning. Got guys out there sweeping the dirt off the pavement, then the wind blows, and there it is again. Me? I'm keeping my butt in the AC today.
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posted on
06/04/2003 5:29:33 AM PDT
by
Eagle Eye
(There ought to be a law against excessive legislation.)
To: Eagle Eye
Just Stay Safe Eagle Eye !
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posted on
06/04/2003 8:06:05 AM PDT
by
Squantos
(Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
To: cgk
((Prayers for the families and thanks for reports soldiers have been found))
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