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U.S. Ships Fired At
Tweet Topic Started: Aug 19 2005, 08:49 PM (430 Views)
saver111	Aug 19 2005, 08:49 PM Post #1
PDFF Moderator Posts: 10,625 Group: PDFF Mod Group Member #408 Joined: March 23, 2005	Three missiles fired at U.S. ships in Jordan The Associated Press Updated: 8:00 a.m. ET Aug. 19, 2005 AMMAN, Jordan - Attackers fired at least three missiles from Jordan on Friday, with one narrowly missing a U.S. Navy ship docked in a Jordanian port and killing a Jordanian soldier, and another falling close to a nearby airport in neighboring Israel, officials said. Jordanian security forces are hunting a Syrian and two Iraqi nationals, a security source said. “We are searching for a Syrian and two Iraqis who are in Aqaba and used Kuwaiti number plates,” said one security source. Story continues below ↓ advertisement The attacks were believed to have been caused by Katyusha rockets fired from a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Aqaba, a Jordanian Red Sea port 210 miles south of the capital, Amman, officials added. The attacks come amid a time of tension in the region marked by Israel's withdrawal from the Palestinian Gaza region and several terrorist attacks on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the past year, including the July 23 attack in Sharm el-Sheik. Jordanian soldier Ahmed Jamal Saleh was fatally wounded when a mortar sailed over a U.S. Navy ship docked in Aqaba and slammed into a warehouse, a Jordanian security official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. The soldier died in the ambulance taking him to hospital, while another unidentified Jordanian was also wounded, the official added. U.S. ships leave port The U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, based in Bahrain, said two American amphibious ships were docked in Aqaba when the mortar was fired toward them. The vessels later sailed out of port as a result of the attacks, U.S. Navy spokesman Lt. Cdr. Charlie Brown told The Associated Press in Bahrain. "At approximately 8:44 a.m. local time, a suspected mortar rocket flew over the USS Ashland's bow and impacted in a warehouse on the pier in the vicinity of the Ashland and USS Kearsage," Brown said. "The warehouse sustained an approximate 8 foot (2.5 meter) hole in the roof of the building." No sailors or Marines were injured in the attack, Brown added. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9004040/
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