Third US Fleet Is Now in Persian Gulf

according to DEBKAfile.

DEBKA also claims that the USS Harry Truman carrier Strike Group drilled bombing Iranian targets with Israeli forces before passing the Suez Canal.

US-led armada secretly drilled bombing Iranian targets, missile defense with Israel (6/21/2010 DEBKAfile)

"The armada of 10 US warships plus an Israeli and German battle vessel each, which transited the Suez Canal Friday, June 18, has reached the Persian Gulf, debkafile's military sources report.

"But first, from June 6 through June 10, the USS Harry S. Truman carrier Strike Group was deployed 50 miles of the shore of southwestern Israel, secretly drilling the interception of incoming Iranian, Syrian and Hizballah missiles and rockets against US and Israeli targets in the Middle East.

"...For five days and night, the Truman's sixty F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter bombers took off on simulated bombing missions against targets set up by the Israeli Air Force at its firing range on the Nevatim Base-28, in the Negev desert southeast of Be'er Sheva - one of its three big air bases." [The article continues.]

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