Coalition forces inspect mine aboard an Iraqi barge
2003033011 - THE ARABIAN GULF, March 21 (UPI) -- An acoustic influence mine, among more than five-dozen weapons found by Coalition Maritime Interdiction Operation and Vessel Board Search and Seizure teams carefully camouflaged inside a shipping barge or as oil barrels on deck. The shipping barge was intercepted and inspected by the MIO and VBSS teams from the patrol craft USS Chinook (PC 9) in the early hours of the U.S.-led war on Iraq. mh/U.S. Navy/Richard Moore. UPI.
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