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• n  a government ship that is available for waging war

• Russia responded to the hijacking by announcing it was sending a warship to the area three of the crew being held hostage are Russian, and Sudan's government has called on .
• Hours after the hijacking, Russia announced it was sending a warship from its Baltic Fleet to patrol the Somali coast.
• But unknown to the 1,042 men aboard the Argentine warship, the cruiser-was being watched.

• war vessel
• combat ship

News & Articles

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• Defendant excluded from secret session in Guantanamo court
  By Jane Sutton GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The Guantanamo war crimes tribunal ended a pretrial hearing for a prisoner accused of directing the deadly bombing of a U.S. warship with a closed 78-minute session on Friday that excluded the defendant. "There was a secret session. That's all I can say," defense attorney Rick Kammen told journalists at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval ...
  June 14, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Guantanamo prisoner seeks to attend pre-trial talks on secret evidence
  By Jane Sutton GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A prisoner accused of directing the deadly bombing of a U.S. warship should be allowed to hear pretrial discussions of secret evidence in the death penalty case against him, defense lawyers in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal argued on Wednesday. Trial rules ensure that Saudi defendant Abd al Rahim al Nashiri can be in the ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• British warship Somerset resurfaces off Cape Cod
  The wreck of the British warship HMS Somerset III, which was guarding Boston Harbor the night Paul Revere slipped by on his legendary journey to Lexington in 1775, has resurfaced in the shifting sands off Cape Cod.        
  June 10, 2013 - Boston Globe

Quotes

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• Dwight Eisenhower in National Catholic Reporter
  President Dwight Eisenhower, in a 1953 address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, said, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,...
• Hassan Nasrallah in Washington Post
  The surprises that I have promised you will start now,Nasrallah said. "Now in the middle of the sea, facing Beirut, the Israeli warship that has attacked the infrastructure, people's homes and civilians. Look at it burning."
• AK Antony in Xinhua
  IAC (indigenous aircraft carrier) will be the largest-ever warship to be built in India. This indigenous warship of the Navy will showcase India's technical prowess and warship building capabilities to the world,Indian Defense Minister AK...