Breaking: Iran closes Strait of Hormuz

[marble falls]

49. They've never pulled it off when they've tried before. The last time they tried, they lost half of their Navy above ...

... above small craft in less than fifteen minutes to an American aircraft carrier task force. There is some speculation that Iran somehow found out that the orders to the task force was that they were to "neutralize" Iranian swiftboats that got to neat the fleet, but that they were not to engage Iranian naval ships. Two got too to close and locked targeting radar on the American ships and they got zapped PDQ. Iraq's Navy had Exocet missiles and they are effective, and they accidently almost sank the USS Stark



USS Stark listing after being struck by two Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf during the Iran/Iraq war.

She made it back to the states for repairs, lost 37 dead in the event and in treatment, with 23 wounded.

Saddam Hussain apologized and claimed the pilot mistook the frigate (just a tad smaller than a destroyer) for an Iranian tanker.

According to the Pentagon, an Iranian helicopter joined a Saudi Arabian vessel to aid in rescue operations.