In restive Med, U.S. ship eyes risk of missile war

2009/09/08 06:33:48 @Reuters: Top News

ABOARD USS HIGGINS, Mediterranean Sea (Reuters) - He is trained to hunt submarines or pirates, launch Tomahawk cruise missiles at coastal targets and shoot down attacking planes. He can also enforce naval blockades and rescue vessels in distress. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=8ETrXhx6jHk:i9gytKMZL1k:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=8ETrXhx6jHk:i9gytKMZL1k:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=8ETrXhx6jHk:i9gytKMZL1k:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=8ETrXhx6jHk:i9gytKMZL1k:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=8ETrXhx6jHk:i9gytKMZL1k:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/8ETrXhx6jHk" height="1" width="1"/
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