US Warship USS Cole Heads Back To Mediterranean
May 11, 2008
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A US warship, the USS Cole, which was deployed off Lebanon in February amid concern over Beirut’s political crisis, crossed Egypt’s Suez Canal on Sunday on its way back to the Mediterranean.
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.
Fighting between supporters of the Western-backed ruling coalition and the Hezbollah-led opposition which erupted in Beirut on Wednesday swiftly spread around the country and has killed 42 people.
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