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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Second Fleet operates primarily in the Atlantic Ocean from the North Pole to the South Pole and from the shores of the United States to the west coast of Europe.
		In peacetime the Third Fleet has no ARG and the carriers in the area are on their way to the Seventh Fleet or conduct training cruises after an overhaul for example.
		Seventh Fleet, established during World War II, is the largest of the forward-deployed U.S. fleets, with 50-60 ships, 350 aircraft and 60,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel.
	www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/u/un/united_states_navy.html (2738 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Top Story: 230,000+ US troops assigned to bases around the world
		Another 19,000 US troops are deployed in Afghanistan, scene of a continuous US military presence since the US-led campaign that toppled its Taliban regime in 2001, US defense officials said.
		The US 7th Fleet is headquartered at Yokosuka, Japan as is the USS Kitty Hawk, the only US aircraft carrier strike group that is permanently deployed outside the United States.
		The US 5th Air Force is headquartered in Yakota Japan, and the III Marine Expeditionary Force is based in Okinawa.
	pakistantimes.net /2004/08/17/top9.htm (680 words)

	Middle East Online
		Another firm ally in the region is Tunisia, a country US Secretary of State Colin Powell has described as a "model" because of its policies regarding women and education.
		Along with Egypt, another US ally, the extremely conservative Saudi Arabia is at the head of the list of Arab countries expressing serious reservations about the announcement of the broader Middle East reform plans.
		Pakistan and Jordan, two other US partners both in economic terms and in the fight against global terrorism, have distanced themselves from the US project, underlining that changes must come from within the countries concerned.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/morocco?id=12096 (655 words)

	Global Manhunt For Bin Laden's Lieutenants
		US counterterrorism officials believed Mohammed was in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region as recently as June.
		The 5th Fleet has responsibility for the Gulf and provides ships for the operations of US Central Command, which is running the war effort in Afghanistan.
		US counter-terrorism officials also suspect he is tied to the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in East Africa.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/752270/posts (942 words)

	USS George Washington Joins U.S. 5th Fleet
		The transit into 5th Fleet places the GW Carrier Strike Group at the tip of the spear in the global war on terrorism, and on a new level of involvement in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
		While assigned to 5th Fleet, George Washington Strike Group’s mission will be focused on winning the global war on terrorism by providing credible, sustainable, independent forward presence throughout 5th Fleet’s area of responsibility, which encompasses 25 countries and 7.5 million square miles in Europe, Africa and Asia.
		In keeping with the mission of 5th Fleet, Erdossy sees the strike group as a means of deterrence without conflict, while at the same time reassuring our allies that the United States is committed to preserving peace and stability in the region.
	www.news.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=11882 (502 words)

	Netguruindia News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Promulgation of state of emergency, recall of 50,000 reservists and US$ 20 billion grant from the US Congress comprise a manifestation of bellicose mood.
		The US citizens were dazed and stupefied when they saw how the 110-storied World Trade Centre had collapsed very much beyond their imagination.
		But the US sleuths have not been able to procure a damning proof to show that Laden had a hand in enacting the sanguinary one-act play in New York on the fl Tuesday.
	www.netguruindia.com /news/Sep01/17/NAT5.html (988 words)

	Bin Laden Fighters Plan Anti-US attack: Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		US officials said on Friday that forces in the Gulf had been put on threat condition delta based on a non-specific but credible threat linked to Bin Laden.
		US warships in Bahrain, headquarters of the US 5th fleet, had been ordered to sea and a US marine corps training exercise in Jordan was being cut short.
		In worst-case scenarios, US warships leave their bases and put out to sea and troops are confined to bases.
	www.fromthewilderness.com /timeline/2001/reuters062301.html (457 words)

	Manama [Juffair], Bahrain [Al Manamah]
		US forces include a naval component, organized as the Fifth Fleet under a Naval Forces Command headquartered in Bahrain, which regularly includes a battle carrier group and other naval assets.
		Fifth Fleet supports operational forces and afloat units assigned or attached to the United States Naval Forces Central Command (USNAVCENT) and to other joint and combined Use The Fifth Fleet area of responsibility includes the Indian Ocean and Arabian Gulf [the US uses the term "Arabian Gulf" instead of "Persian Gulf"].
		Since the suicide bomb attack on the 5th Fleet destroyer USS Cole in Yemen, the US Central Command began limiting the activities of its personnel in Bahrain.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/manama.htm (3113 words)

	Numbered Fleets
		The Second and Third Fleets are home-ported in the United States, with most of their forces training in coastal waters, while the Sixth and Seventh Fleets are home-ported at forward locations, with forces operating in areas of responsibility.
		First Fleet is a term occasionally used as an informal reference to the US Coast Guard, although as far as one can detect the United States has never in fact officially used this designation with reference either to the Coast Guard or any element of the US Navy.
		As in the case of the US Army, tactical organization for the Normandy invasion was delayed until the fall of 1943 when the Twelfth Fleet under Rear Adm. Alan G. Kirk was organized.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/navy/unit/fleet_n.htm (2072 words)

	US NAVY - Fleets
		Third Fleet was formed as a fighting force under Admiral "Bull" Halsey on 15 March 1943, and reconstituted in the Middle and Eastern Pacific on 01 February 1975.
		The Commander, US Naval Forces Central Command is the naval component commander for US Central Command responsible for combat operations in the Middle East.
		Seventh Fleet, established 19 February 1943 from Southwest Pacific Force, is the largest of the forward-deployed U.S. fleets, with 50-60 ships, 350 aircraft and 60,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel.
	navysite.de /navy/fleet.htm (1652 words)

	LearnThis.Info Encyclopedia articles beginning with 'Us' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		U > Us Listed below are all articles that begin with Us.
		US governmental response to the September 11, 2001 attacks
		US National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /u/us/index.html (93 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - US submarine collides with cargo ship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nobody was injured and both ships appeared to suffer only superficial damage from the early Monday morning accident, according to a spokesman for the US Navy 5th Fleet, Commander Jeffrey Breslau.
		It was the US Navy's second collision with a civilian vessel in the Gulf in 14 months.
		The submarine is part of a fleet of US and allied navy vessels conducting what are called "maritime security operations" in the Gulf against the smuggling of weapons and drugs and movement of "terrorists".
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/764D98F1-DC77-4C4B-B67E-845B21ED1CC6.htm (295 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| US destroyer 'rammed', at least four dead
		At least four US sailors have been killed and 31 injured, five seriously, after a US navy destroyer was rammed by an explosive-laden rubber raft in the Yemeni port of Aden.
		US president Bill Clinton was notified of the explosion at his home in Chappaqua, New York, by his national security adviser, Sandy Berger.
		In Washington, US officials said the small boat was on a suicide mission.
	www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,381281,00.html (475 words)

	US warplane might have been hit over Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The U.S. Air Force's European Command said U.S. Air Force aircraft bombed Iraqi radar facilities around the city of Mosul between 12:30 p.m.
		U.S. and British planes patrol no-fly zones over southern and northern Iraq set up after the 1991 Gulf War.
		Representatives of the US 5th fleet in Bahrain announced that the crew of the F-14 ejected and was rescued by USS Kitty Hawk carrier.
	www.aeronautics.ru /nws001/reuters006.htm (257 words)

	"Death to Israel" chanted at anti-war protests
		US embassies and diplomatic offices in some Gulf countries remained closed Saturday to review security as angry crowds kept up protests against the US-led invasion of Iraq.
		In Bahrain, home to the US Navy's 5th Fleet, services at the US Embassy and classes at the American school, which is run by the US Department of Defense, were suspended for one day Saturday.
		US offices in Egypt were closed as usual Saturday but expected to reopen Sunday except for the visa section and library center.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/872322/posts (1069 words)

	Gas tank explodes at Bahrain base - theage.com.au
		Tuesday 25 March 2003, 8:05 AM An explosion outside the US Navy 5th Fleet base in Bahrain on Monday night shattered windows at nearby houses but caused no injuries, Bahraini officials said.
		The government has long rejected public calls for the US military to leave, saying America is a friendly country.
		She said her husband, who is with the US Navy, is in Kuwait.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/03/25/1048354570331.html (315 words)

	Bahrain ratifies free trade pact with US -DAWN - Business; July 7, 2005
		Bahrain is proceeding ahead with the FTA with the US despite the fact that its economy to considerable extent depends on Saudi Arabia.
		The US 5th fleet is also stationed in the tiny kingdom of Bahrain.
		The deal, between the US and Bahrain was signed in September last year, will now go the country’s upper house, the shoura council, and must be approved by the king before it goes into effect.
	www.dawn.com /2005/07/07/ebr15.htm (260 words)

	Financial Review: Holiday terror threats for the US, Mideast, Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		US officials, reluctant to disclose detailed intelligence information, said on Tuesday other countries may be targets as well.
		Bahrain, which hosts the base of the US navy's 5th fleet and is experimenting with democratic elections, was singled out specifically through a message by the US Embassy in Manama to US citizens in the Gulf country.
		Last Sunday, the US government raised the threat level from an elevated to a high risk of terrorist attacks, based partly on the foreign information.
	afr.com /cgi-bin/newtextversions.pl?pagetype=printer&path=/articles/2003/12/24/1071941760729.html (322 words)

	US Military Builds Up Huge Attack Force
		In the most blunt indication yet that the US administration's threat is not an idle one and it will force Iraq if necessary to meet its UN pledges, the US central command will move its headquarters to Qatar in November, perhaps indefinitely.
		The US air force has since the spring been moving computer equipment and munitions to al-Udeid, home to the region's longest runway (4,500 meters).
		US special forces are also believed to have been considerably reinforced in the Gulf.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines02/0913-01.htm (1307 words)

	Fleet Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		* the River Fleet, a subterranean river in London, England
		*Fleet, LincolnshireFleet, in the county of Lincolnshire, England
		*Fleet, HampshireFleet, in the county of Hampshire, England
	www.echostatic.com /Fleet.html (37 words)

	CalTrade Report - TRADE - July 1 to July 15, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bahrain is the home of the US Navy's 5th Fleet, which was deployed in the Iraq war, and a leading financial center in the Middle East.
		The proposal is an effort to link US support for expanding economic opportunity in the Arab world with the drive to settle the Israeli-Palestinian dispute and, it is hoped, nudge along the elusive Mideast peace process.
		In the first quarter net acquisitions of assets in the US by foreigners exceeded US residents' acquisitions of foreign assets by $112.8 million, down from an excess of $152.5 million in the fourth quarter, the report said.
	www.caltradereport.com /eWebPages/in-brief-1057041392.html (849 words)

	Yorkshire CND - The ever-growing US military footprint - 10/6/03
		Contrary to much of the recent news coverage about Pentagon pronouncements on the US seeking to reduce its presence in Saudi Arabia, the fact of the matter is that when one looks at the big picture, the US has a huge military presence in the region.
		Contrary to US policy during the Cold War when the US stationed hundreds of thousands of troops in Europe, the current Pentagon strategy is to have "long-term access" to bases, rather than a permanent presence.
		The port of Manama in Bahrain is headquarters for the US Navy's 5th Fleet and hosts the headquarters of CENTCOM's navy and marine corps leaders.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /news/articles/growingfootprint.htm (1139 words)

	Middle East Newsline -
		U.S. ABU DHABI [MENL] -- The United States has launched an upgrade of its naval facility in Bahrain.
		U.S. officials said the project reflects the intention of the U.S. Navy to maintain its presence in the Gulf Arab kingdom for at least another decade.
		They said that over the last year Bahrain demonstrated excellent cooperation in hosting the U.S. Fifth Fleet amid the war in Iraq as well as the threat of Al Qaida attack.
	www.menewsline.com /stories/2004/march/03_05_2.html (196 words)

	Daily Excelsior... World
		The Chinese official media has taken note of the fact that US President George W Bush went out of the way to meet with External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh at the White House in April, when Washington’s ties with Beijing were severely strained over the US spy plane issue.
		In order to rope in India, the US first catered to India’s "psychological desire to be seen as a world power rather than a second-rate country," it said.
		It also noted that US Secretary of State, Treasury Secretary and Defence Secretary have once again proposed lifting economic sanctions against India which were imposed after the 1998 nuclear tests.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /01june25/inter.htm (2788 words)

	Home of the Underdogs - Entry: 5th Fleet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the best board-style wargames ever made, 5th Fleet is a great naval simulation based on Avalon Hill board game of the same name.
		You’ll learn to horde the arrows in your quiver; the importance of using range limitations to your advantage; the weaknesses and strengths of ground-based air support; the crucial importance of locating the enemy before he locates you; and the shocking suddenness with which a seeming victory can turn into a crushing defeat.
		Certainly the best way to play 5th Fleet is against a human opponent, either in the flesh or by E-mail, but the computer AI fights a very competent battle.
	www.the-underdogs.org /game.php?id=12 (914 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Iraq to be seen smuggling oil to Iran
		In one unpublicized showdown, an unidentified tugboat rammed a US frigate.
		The "Iran connection" is one visible sign of co-operation between the two former enemies in trying to foil American efforts to enforce UN trade sanctions on Iraq.
		He said US officials are "working very closely with the UAE government" to ensure enforcement in UAE waters.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/ntm70801.htm (604 words)

	Missile fired at US navy ship in Jordan
		One missile fell close to an airport in neighbouring Israel,officials said.The US navy's 5th fleet, based in Bahrain, said 2 American amphibious ships were docked in Aqaba when a mortar was fired towards them.
		The vessels later sailed out of the port as a result of the attacks, US Navy spokesman Lt Cdr Charlie Brown told The Associated Press in Bahrain.
		Jordanian soldier Ahmed Jamal Saleh was fatally wounded when the mortar sailed over one of the US ships and slammed into a warehouse, a Jordanian security official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
	www.rediff.com /news/2005/aug/19missile.htm (593 words)

	Times of Oman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vice-Admiral David C. Nichols Jr, commander, US Naval Forces Central Command, Commander, 5th Fleet, said this while speaking to media at the InterContinental Hotel about the maritime security operations (MSO) coming under the US Naval Central Command area of responsibility.
		The 5th Fleet of the US Navy is based in Bahrain.
		Together the taskforce patrol 2.5 million square miles of international waters to conduct integrated and coordinated operations to preserve the free use of the world’s oceans by legitimate mariners and prevent terrorists from attempting to use the world’s oceans as a venue for attack or as a medium.
	www.timesofoman.com /newsdetails.asp?newsid=16659&pn=local (665 words)

	JJ's Choice - sub Iraq
		Some of the biggest demonstrations on Saturday are taking place in Japan, Russia, Pakistan, Germany and London, all protesting the buildup of US military hardware and personnel in the Gulf region.
		The small Persian Gulf state is home to the US 5th Fleet and hosts about 1000 US military personnel who would be among the forces used in any American-led attack on Iraq.
		About 120 000 US troops are expected to be in the Gulf region by mid-February, while a task force has set sail from Britain.
	www.geocities.com /kem_jj/rethink2.htm (413 words)

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