DEBKAfile Exclusive: US Fleet revisits Jordan's Aqaba Port for the first time in 10 months

June 30, 2006, 2:32 PM (GMT+02:00)

Our military sources reveal: A US helicopter carrier escorting military supply vessels put into the Red Sea port Friday, June 29. The US fleet has stayed clear of the Jordanian port since Abu Musab al Zargawi's rocket attack on American ships at anchor, a Jordanian training facility in Aqaba and the neighboring Israeli port of Eilat on the August 19, 2005. DEBKAfile's sources add: Now that Zarqawi is dead, the Americans are anxious to reuse the strategic Red Sea facility and to find out if it is now safe from al Qaeda attacks.

 

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