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Thursday, November 04, 2010

US Dispatched its Fourth Submarine to The Persian Gulf

Virginia classUS military on the eve of midterm elections in the country dispatched a fourth nuclear powered and armed submarine to the Persian Gulf near the coast of Bahrain, a small island serving as the biggest US and its allies military base in the region.

According to a Press TV report Wednesday, the USS Abraham Lincoln and French Charles de Gaulle aircraft carriers are also joining other forces including USS Harry Truman and fifty-three smaller vessels in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman.

Press TV said, there are now a total of thirty combat vessels belonging to US, France and UK stationed in the region. Last year, there were reports of German-built Israeli submarines also heading toward the Persian Gulf.

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