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An
RAN Petty Officer surveys the rail system used to launch sea
mines from the deck of a captured Iraqi tug.
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TUG
OF WAR
Crewman admits to explosives on board
The
tug and barge had been plying a steady route between the Persian
Gulf and Iraq’s Khawr Abd Allah (KAA) waterway for weeks. Tugs
in the region are normal, using their powerful engines to push the
large oil tankers into position on the two Iraqi oil platforms off
the coast.
As
Royal Australian Navy boarding parties sped past on their searches
for illegal goods out of Iraq on cargo vessels, the tug crews watched
impassively — all was seemingly normal as it had been for the
past months.
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