US Navy rescues Iranians held hostage by pirates

[TLAM Strike]

Old news... they did it AGAIN!!!


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-...-at-sea-again/

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter rescued six Iranian mariners from a vessel in distress in the Gulf, the second time in less than a week that the American military has come to the aid of Iranians at sea, an official said Tuesday.

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Pentagon press secretary George Little said the Iranians aboard a cargo dhow about 50 miles southeast of the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr used flares and flashlights to hail the cutter Monomoy at 3 a.m. local time Tuesday. The vessel's master indicated that his engine room was flooding and "deemed not seaworthy," Little said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/wo...ns-at-sea.html

The statement quoted the owner of the stricken dhow, Hakim Hamid-Awi, as thanking the Monomoy crew and saying, “Without your help, we were dead.”

The Cutter in question:


The same thing happened last year:
http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=58328