US Warship Heads Back To Mediterranean Amid Lebanon Crisis

[Purveyor]

A US warship, which was deployed off Lebanon in February amid concern over Beirut's political crisis, crossed Egypt's Suez Canal on Sunday on its way to the Mediterranean, an official with the canal authority told AFP.

"The USS Cole has crossed the Suez Canal and is headed to the Mediterranean," the official said, adding he did not know its exact destination.

The United States sent the guided-missile destroyer to waters off the coast of Lebanon on February 28, in what US officials said was "a show of support for regional stability" amid concerns over Lebanon's protracted political crisis.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had defended the earlier deployment saying it was designed to show Washington's readiness to defend the interests of its allies in the region.

In March the USS Cole had left the region for the Gulf.

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3542069,00.html

[madokie]

1. like all good thugs are want to do

bullies bullies and more bullies is what we are now

[endarkenment]

2. The Cole?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing



Are they just asking for Hezbollah to try out one of their land to sea antiship missiles?