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Article: USS Cole to Deploy to Middle East
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SONJA BARISIC, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
06-02-2006
Dateline: NORFOLK, Va.
This image provided by the U.S. Marine Corps shows the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole as it is towed from the port city of Aden, Yemen, into open sea by the Military Sealift Command ocean-going tug USNS Catawba, Oct. 29, 2000. A bomb struck USS Cole Oct. 12, killing 17 crewmembers. The USS Cole is scheduled to return to the Middle East before June 9, 2006, to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will be the first time since the guided-missile destroyer was attacked in Yemen.(AP Photo/U.S.M.C., Sgt. Don L. Maes, File)
The USS Cole is heading to the Middle East for the first time since a terrorist bomb ...