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| http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=66545§ionid=351020101 US: No plan for naval blockade of Iran Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:50:54 A senior official with the US Defense Department has dismissed reports that Washington is planning a naval blockade of Iran. "As a matter of policy we do not discuss current or future ship's movements. However, I can tell you that reports of an alleged naval blockade of Iran are false," Lt. Col. Patrick Ryder, a spokesman for the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. "We routinely rotate deployed naval forces in the USCENTCOM area of responsibility," he added. The US Central Command supervises US military operations in the Middle East, East Africa and Central Asia. On Monday, Egypt's Middle East Times reported that a massive US and European armada was heading towards the Persian Gulf for a naval blockade of Iran. The report said that the force included the nuclear-powered American aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt as well as forces from the British Royal Navy and a French nuclear submarine. ------------------------------------------------------------------ War Alert (Edgar Steele incorrectly mentioned that Georgia is part of NATO which fortunately isn't the case as of yet as a vote on admitting Georgia wasn't scheduled to take place until next year): http://www.conspiracypenpal.com/rants/ww3.htm | |  | | | ©2002-2009 WarWithoutEnd.co.uk |