American armada prepares to take on Iran

By Damien McElroy aboard USS Eisenhower
Telegraph.co.uk – Last Updated: 3:34pm GMT 24/02/2007

It is four and a half acres of American power in the middle of the Arabian Sea but the influence of USS Dwight D Eisenhower stretches for hundreds of miles. Crew on board the aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower are on alert in the Arabian Sea. The aircraft carrier, backed by its sister vessel, a handful of destroyers and a shoal of support ships, has placed a maritime ring of steel around an increasingly unstable region. While the Eisenhower is ostensibly assisting US operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is the looming threat of Iran that increasingly occupies its attention.

(More)