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Article: POSITION OF "STARK" IN DISPUTE PILOT THOUGHT SHIP WAS IN WAR ZONE.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 4, 1987
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Byline: Gaylord Shaw Los Angeles Times
The Iraqi government claims that the Navy ship Stark was at least 10 miles inside a Persian Gulf "exclusion zone" when it was attacked by an Iraqi warplane whose pilot thought that the guided-missile frigate was an Iranian vessel, a Pentagon report disclosed Wednesday.
U.S. officials disagree with Iraq's claim, insisting in the report that tracking data from the Stark, an AWACS radar plane and two other U.S. ships confirm that the frigate was 10 to 15 nautical miles outside the zone when it was hit by two Exocet missiles.
Commonly called the "war zone," the "exclusion zone" is an area of the central gulf ...