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...Navy since July. The Administration quickly denounced the attack as an "outrageous act of aggression." As top national security officials gathered at the White House on Friday to formulate strategy, there was widespread speculation that the U.S. would retaliate, perhaps by attempting to destroy the Chinese-made Silkworm missiles thought to be responsible. Asked what the U.S. should do, a senior naval officer preparing papers for a National Security Planning Group meeting clenched his fist and raised it threateningly...
...dawn attack on the reflagged tanker came almost exactly 24 hours after another missile, also thought to be an Iranian-launched Silkworm, slammed into the starboard side of the supertanker Sungari, a U.S.-owned, Liberian- registered vessel that was not under the protection of the U.S. fleet. No one , was hurt in the attack...
WASHINGTON--Kuwaiti military forces detected the firing of a Silkworm missile yesterday that hit a U.S.-flagged Kuwaiti tanker, and tried but failed to shoot it down with a missile of their own, Pentagon sources said...
...sources, who insisted on anonymity, said Kuwaiti forces had fired a small surface-to-air missile from the island of Faylaka at the Silkworm as it passed nearby on a path toward an oil-loading facility. At least 18 people on the U.S.-flagged tanker, including the ship's American captain, were wounded in the attack...
According to the Pentagon sources, the Kuwaiti effort to down the missile explained why that Persian Gulf state was so quick to identify the weapon that struck the Sea Isle City as a Silkworm, a Chinese-built antishipping missile acquired by Iran that has a range of about 50 miles...