USS STENNIS STRIKE GROUP DEPLOYS FOR IRAN

"The USS Stennis carrier with thousands of troops and 80 warplanes aboard is heading for Persian Gulf... the ship picked up 2,500 troops at San Diego. The Stennis Strike Group has still to collect two ships at Hawaii before heading east with a complement of 6,500 US soldiers."
--DEBKAfile (Israel), January 21, 2007
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