In addition, the supposed limpet mine was above the waterline.
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A preliminary investigation suggests that they were damaged by limpet mines.
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An investigation blamed limpet mines for last month's attacks on four tankers.
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It is much harder to place a limpet onto a ship that is moving through the water, so if a boat was used to approach a moving tanker, that might explain why a limpet was found above the waterline.
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Even a small limpet can open a surprisingly large hole in a ship.
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A limpet mine is a type of mine attached to the hull using magnets.
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Limpet mines are magnetic and are often attached to a ship by an underwater attack team.
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A competent military force would not generally send a large team to approach a live limpet.
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That inquiry said it was highly likely that limpet mines placed by trained divers were the cause.
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Last month, four ships were hit by limpet mines off the coast of the United Arab Emirates.
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A limpet mine is an explosive charge that magnetically attaches itself to the hull of a ship.
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The U.S. military says they removed an unexploded limpet mine, which can be magnetically attached to a vessel.
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In other words, he does not think the damage to the tanker was caused by a limpet mine.
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The United States similarly blamed those attacks on Iran, pointing to limpet mines that officials said were Iranian.
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And in the cases of the May tanker attacks, U.S. officials did explicitly say Iranian limpet mines were used.
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A United States Navy limpet attack on an enemy ship would be carried out underwater by a SEAL platoon.
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A limpet mine is a type of mine attached to the hull using magnets and was used in the May attacks.
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U.S. officials had already said those attacks were caused by Iranian limpet mines, magnetic naval mines named after an aquatic snail.
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"(It) was observed and recorded removing the unexploded limpet mine from the Kokuka Courageous (video attached)," Urban said in a statement.
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This would present a united front against Iranian provocations and reduce the risk of a limpet mine starting a war. 3.
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The Trump administration also said Iran was responsible for using limpet mines on at least one vessel (Iran also denies this).
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CREW OF ONE OF OIL TANKERS ABANDONED SHIP AFTER SPOTTING AN UNEXPLODED DEVICE ATTACHED TO IT, BELIEVED TO BE LIMPET MINE -U.
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From the sea, they could feast on limpet, mussels, clams, brown crabs, spider crabs, sharks, eels, sea breams, mullets, dolphins and seals.
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Iranian sailors, thought to be members of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, then remove an unexploded limpet mine from the hull of the ship.
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Another photograph, the Pentagon said, shows the "remnants of the magnetic attachment device of unexploded limpet mine" placed on one of the tankers.
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The most likely place to be attacked by a limpet is while a ship is moored, or when it is sitting at anchor.
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U.S. officials similarly accused Iran of targeting the ships with limpet mines, which are magnetic and attach to the hulls of a ship.
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Still, the liberal media stick limpet-like to the Mueller probe, sapping the rising optimism and diverting resources from the work of the people.
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Following a string of what the US has characterized as limpet-mine attacks on commercial shipping vessels by Iran, Iranian forces began seizing tankers.
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Limpet mines were also suspected to have been used in the May attack on four oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates.
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No. Modern limpet mines have been around at least since World War II, and most navies around the world likely have them in their arsenal.
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"You have to admire her limpet-like stickability, you have to admire that," he said, though it quickly emerges that he does not admire it.
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She cackles when discussing age, the dishonesty of the music industry, and the mediocre musicians who cling to her, limpet-like, for a shred of credibility.
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The U.S. blamed Iran on attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman Thursday, accusing the country of using limpet mines on the tankers.
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While the object on the side of the Kokuka Courageous is described as a "likely limpet mine" the images presented aren't clear enough to verify that.
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It released photographs that show sailors from Iran's navy removing what appears to be an unexploded limpet mine from one of the ships damaged earlier this month.
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"Iran is responsible for the attack based on video evidence and the resources and proficiency needed to quickly remove the unexploded limpet mine," the Pentagon said Monday.
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The Pentagon said that the crew of one of the tankers, the Japanese Kokuka Courageous, found an unexploded limpet mine on its hull following an initial explosion.
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A limpet mine is a type of naval mine that is usually manually placed by a swimmer, diver or frogman on the underside of a ship's hull.
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The so-called limpet mine resembled the kind of explosive that investigators believe was used against the four ships in the attacks last month, the official said.
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The black-and-white footage, as well as still photographs released by the U.S. military's Central Command, appeared to show the limpet mine on the Kokuka Courageous.
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" Diplomats said the assessment of the damage to the four vessels and chemical analysis of the debris recovered revealed "it was highly likely that limpet mines were deployed.
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An unexploded device, believed to be a limpet mine, was spotted on the side of the Japanese tanker, a U.S. official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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Two limpet bombs placed on the hull had exploded, driving a huge hole through the engine room, and the boat's photographer had drowned while trying to rescue his gear.
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The United States and Saudi Arabia blamed Iran for limpet mine attacks in May on four tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, a charge Tehran denies.
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On June 13, two vessels — one belonging to a company in Japan and the other to Norwegian firm — were disabled in the Gulf of Oman seemingly by limpet mines.
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But U.S. Cyber Command launched a retaliatory cyber attack on "an Iranian spy group that supported last week's limpet mine attacks on commercial ships," Yahoo News reported on Friday.
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A video released by the US military the next day purported to show Iran Revolutionary Guard boats taking an unexploded limpet mine from the hull of the Japanese tanker.
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"Iran is responsible for the attack based on video evidence and the resources and proficiency needed to quickly remove the unexploded limpet mine," Central Command said in a statement.
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Named for a type of mollusk, or shellfish, that sticks to rocks and is hard to remove, limpet mines are similarly stuck fast to their targets, usually with magnets.
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When placed against a ship's hull underwater, the limpet has dense water behind it, and most likely has an air void on the other side of the hull plating.
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"The attack against the shipping in Fujairah, we attribute it to the IRGC," Gilday said, explaining that the Pentagon attributed limpet mines used in the attack directly to the IRGC.
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The United States and Saudi Arabia blamed Iran for last month's attacks using limpet mines on four tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, a charge Tehran denies.
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An international investigation presented to the United Nations later concluded that the damage was done by divers deployed from small "fast boats" who had placed limpet mines against the hulls.
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In June, the US accused Iran of using limpet mines to blow holes in two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, as well as shooting down a US drone.
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The Trump administration also said Iran was responsible for using limpet mines on at least one vessel and trying to shoot down a US military drone (Iran also denies this).
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"Iran is responsible for the attack based on video evidence and the resources and proficiency needed to quickly remove the unexploded limpet mine," the Pentagon said in a June 17 statement.
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Limpet mines, which are also believed to have been used in similar attacks in May, are explosive sea mines that can be attached to the hull of a ship using magnets.
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"These IEDs included the limpet mine to sink US naval vessels and the prototype for the shoe-bomb used in a failed attack on a civilian transatlantic flight," his file said.
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The United States has since accused Iran of using limpet mines to damage a total of six petroleum tankers in two separate incidents in the waterways leading to the Persian Gulf.
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"The limpet mine that was used in the attack is distinguishable and also strikingly bearing a resemblance to Iranian mines that have already been publicly displayed in Iranian military parades," said Cmdr.
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If Limpet mines can be blamed, they would have been timed to go off within a few hours of each other in the morning, with no sight nor sound of attacker ever detected.
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"As they conducted the evacuation, our crew noticed an object above the waterline on the hull of the tanker," he said, referring to what the Navy later judged to be the limpet mine.
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Then a month later, two more oil tankers were attacked by what were widely believed to be limpet mines, explosives that are attached to the hull of a ship with a powerful magnet.
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The two tankers were hit in the Gulf of Oman, sending oil prices as much as 4% higher, a month after four other tankers were damaged by limpet mines in the same region.
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The Japanese owner of the tanker said the crew believes they were hit by a "flying object," contradicting U.S. claims that it was a limpet mine that set off the explosion, the Post reports.
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A U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, reiterated that the characteristics of the blast fit the profile of a limpet mine and not that of a torpedo.
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To back up its claim, U.S. Central Command released video last week it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the tankers attacked in the Gulf of Oman.
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But if a limpet detonates above the water line, it will most likely punch only a small opening in the hull, which would do little to affect the ship or its ability to operate.
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" "We assess this activity is consistent with an Iranian operation to attach limpet mines to the vessels," he added, saying that "a senior IRGC official confirmed that personnel – IRGC personnel – had completed two actions.
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One of the officials said a US military aircraft overhead recorded a full motion video of an Iranian boat moving alongside one of the stricken tankers and removing an unexploded limpet mine from its hull.
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A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that the United States had video showing Iran's military removing what Washington believes was an unexploded limpet mine from the side of the Japanese tanker.
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The U.S. military said black-and-white footage it filmed from a U.S. aircraft showed Iran's Guards on a patrol boat drawing up to the Kokuka Courageous and removing an unexploded limpet mine from its hull.
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What we know about the attack The crew of USS Bainbridge reported they saw an unexploded limpet mine on the side of one of the ships, according to a US defense official familiar with the matter.
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A source familiar with the situation said multiple governments now believe it was a sophisticated operation using mines similar to "limpet mines" used during World War II to attack the ships while they were in port.
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Identical markings on the side of the Kokuka Courageous above the alleged limpet mine are visible in both the photographs of the vessel and in the video showing its apparent removal by the Gashti patrol boat.
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"Iran is responsible for the attack based on video evidence and the resources and proficiency needed to quickly remove the unexploded limpet mine," the U.S. military's Central Command said in a statement explaining the still-images.
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He based his analysis on the size of the hole, consistent with a 5kg charge (about the amount of explosives in a Limpet mine) and the lack of scorching or burning a rocket or missile might leave.
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"The attack against the shipping in Fujairah we attribute it to the IRGC," said Rear Admiral Michael Gilday, the director of the Joint Staff, adding the Pentagon attributed limpet mines used in the attack to the IRGC.
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According to the Pentagon, the images allegedly show an Iran Revolutionary Guard fast attack craft approaching one of the oil tankers to remove an unexploded limpet mine, a device believed to have been used in other attacks.
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Some shipping companies are turning to experienced security firms to help with a range of issues, from advising ship captains to closely monitoring a vessel above the waterline where explosives such as limpet mines may be placed.
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Two oil tankers were hit in suspected attacks in the Gulf of Oman, shipping firms and industry sources said, sending oil prices higher a month after four other tankers were damaged by limpet mines in the region.
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On June 13, the US military released videos of what it alleged to be an Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps' patrol boat removing an unexploded limpet mine from a tanker in the Gulf of Oman after an attack.
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The US is dispatching 1,000 troops to the region after the US Navy filmed the removal of what they said was an unexploded limpet mine from the hull of one of the stricken ships by the Iranian navy.
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The U.S. military said black-and-white footage it filmed from a U.S. aircraft showed Iran's Guards on one of their patrol boats drawing up to the Kokuka Courageous and removing an unexploded limpet mine from its hull.
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Bill Urban, said the video showed an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps patrol boat pulling up alongside the Kokuka Courageous, one of the stricken ships, several hours after the initial explosion, and removing an unexploded limpet mine in broad daylight.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has video showing Iran's military removing what Washington believes was an unexploded limpet mine from the side of a Japanese tanker attacked on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman, a U.S. official told Reuters.
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The U.S. military previously released images it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) removing an unexploded limpet mine from the Japanese-owned tanker Kokuka Courageous, which was hit by explosions along with the Norwegian-owned Front Altair ship on June 13.
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The UAE had said that the May 12 attacks on four vessels off the coast of Fujairah, a main bunkering hub, were likely caused by limpet mines and bore the hallmarks of an operation most likely by a state actor.
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Yet Bagehot bets that Mrs May is safe in her gilded prison in Downing Street for at least another year: embarrassed by scandal, overwhelmed by problems, battered by crises but nevertheless clinging on to office, the great limpet of Brexit Britain.
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US and British officials say that Iran has conducted covert operations against shipping in the Gulf of Oman, the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, accusing the country of holing six tankers with limpet mines and shooting down an American drone.
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WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - The United States has video showing Iran's military removing what Washington believes was an unexploded limpet mine from the side of a Japanese tanker attacked on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman, a U.S. official told Reuters.
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But they both are measured provocations: If you want to damage a tanker, you put the limpet mine below the water line rather than above it, and Iran's violations of the Iran pact won't put it close to a bomb soon.
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So it is possible that a small boat could have moved right up to these tankers and that someone on the boat could have slapped a limpet on the tanker without drawing too much attention, especially if it happened at night.
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A month after that, when a Japanese oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman was attacked with an apparent limpet mine in June, it was Pompeo who spoke for the U.S. administration before any official, blaming Iran for the blast.
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Tensions with the US were heightened after the US military released video of what it said was Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps&apos personnel removing an unexploded limpet mine from a tanker in the Gulf of Oman after an attack in June.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An unexploded device, believed to be a limpet mine, was spotted on the side of one of two oil tankers attacked on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman, a U.S. official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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In the United Arab Emirates port of Fujairah on Wednesday, the U.S. Navy exhibited pieces of limpet mines and a magnet it said its personnel extracted from one of the two oil tankers attacked in the Gulf of Oman last week.
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"Later that day, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Gashti Class patrol boat approached Kokuka Courageous and was observed and recorded by a U.S. Navy MH-60 helicopter removing the unexploded limpet mine from Kokuka Courgeous," the Pentagon said in a statement Monday.
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As of early Tuesday morning ET, only the UK has said it believes the White House's evidence, which has included photos of what the Pentagon claims is Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) removing a limpet mine from one of the tanker's hulls.
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The U.S. military said a black-and-white video filmed from a U.S. aircraft showed Guards on one of their patrol boats drawing up to the Kokuka Courageous, after blasts struck both vessels, and removing an unexploded limpet mine from the hull.
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The officials said the limpet mines were placed above the water line of the ships, where they would be visible but would do relatively limited damage, and not below the water line, where they could actually cause the ships to take on water.
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Fragments recovered from one of two tankers crippled by explosions in the Gulf of Oman last week bear a "striking resemblance" to limpet mines that Iran has previously displayed, United States Navy officials told reporters on Wednesday in the United Arab Emirates.
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Conceivably, it looks like if someone made you jump out of a plane, you might be able to cling to that static line like a limpet until your chute was nicely inflated and you could drift softly earthward like a dandelion seed.
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Shipping firms and industry sources said two tankers were hit in suspected attacks in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, sending oil prices as much as 4% higher a month after four other tankers were damaged by limpet mines in the region.
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But soon after that statement was issued, the U.S. released still images showing limpet mines attached to the Kokuka and black-and-white video footage appearing to show a Revolutionary Guard patrol boat pulling up alongside the ship and removing unexploded mines.
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WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - An unexploded device, believed to be a limpet mine, was spotted on the side of one of two oil tankers attacked on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman, a U.S. official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates, June 19 (Reuters) - The United States Navy on Wednesday displayed limpet mine fragments and a magnet removed from one of two oil tankers attacked in the Gulf of Oman last week, saying the mines bore a striking resemblance to Iranian ones.
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"The damage at the blast hole is consistent with a limpet mine attack, it is not consistent with an external flying object striking the ship," Kido said, adding that nail holes visible in the hull indicated how the mine was attached to the ship.
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The video purports to show an Iranian patrol boat removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the damaged tankers, the Panama-flagged Kokuka Courageous, and the photos detail the section of the ship where the explosion occurred and the location of the malfunctioning mine.
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Already, the U.S. has blamed Iran for what it described as an attack with limpet mines on the two tankers, pointing to black-and-white footage it captured that American officials describe as Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops removing an unexploded mine from the Kokuka Courageous.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Monday released new images it says showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) removing an unexploded limpet mine from a Japanese-owned tanker that was attacked on June 13 in the Gulf of Oman, as Washington blames Tehran for the attack.
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To bolster the case, the United States military released video footage that American officers said showed an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps patrol boat pulling alongside one of the stricken ships several hours after the first explosion and removing an unexploded limpet mine in broad daylight.
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The attacks required expert navigation of fast boats and trained divers who likely placed limpet mines with a high degree of precision on the vessels under the waterline to incapacitate but not sink them, according to the preliminary findings of the countries' joint investigation.
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One weapons expert who reviewed images of some of the damage thinks the holes may have been caused by limpet mines, which are used at or below the water line, easily stuck to the hull by a diver or attacker in a small boat, and detonated by a timer.
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"The damage at the blast hole is consistent with a limpet mine attack; it is not consistent with an external flying object striking the ship," he said, according to Reuters, adding that nail holes visible in the hull showed how the mine had been affixed to the ship.
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Related: Fragments recovered from one of the two oil tankers attacked in the Gulf of Oman last week bear a "striking resemblance" to a type of limpet mine that Iran has previously displayed, U.S. Navy officials told reporters, bolstering Washington's accusation that Iran was responsible for the attack.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. military on Friday released a video it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the oil tankers targeted near the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting the Islamic Republic sought to remove evidence of its involvement from the scene.
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The Trump administration has blamed Iran for the attack, citing a video made from a U.S. aircraft that it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guards on patrol boats drawing up to one of the ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the blasts and removing an unexploded limpet mine.
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Whereas some U.S. sources said they believed Iran encouraged allied militants or militia to carry out last month's attacks, the U.S. military has released a video and still images which it says show Iran's Revolutionary Guards removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the latest vessels to be targeted.
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FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) - The United States sought on Wednesday to bolster its case for isolating Iran over its nuclear and regional activities by displaying limpet mine fragments it said came from an oil tanker damaged in an attack last week and saying the ordnance looked Iranian in origin.
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"The limpet mine that was used in the attack is distinguishable and also strikingly bearing a resemblance to Iranian mines that have already been publicly displayed in Iranian military parades," said Commander Sean Kido, the commanding officer of an explosive ordinance dive and salvage task group in the Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT).
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"The limpet mine that was used in the attack is distinguishable and also strikingly bearing a resemblance to Iranian mines that have already been publicly displayed in Iranian military parades," said Commander Sean Kido, commanding officer of an explosive ordinance dive and salvage task group in the Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT).
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Not only have their been apparent drone and missile attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure, but there have also been suspected limpet mine attacks — another low-tech threat with limited countermeasures — on multiple commercial shipping vessels operating near the Strait of Hormuz, a shipping lane of great importance to the global oil trade.
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Explosions crippled two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday; the United States military released video footage that Central Command said shows a Revolutionary Guards patrol boat pulling up alongside one of the stricken ships several hours after the initial explosion, and removing an unexploded limpet mine in broad daylight.
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"The limpet mine that was used in the attack is distinguishable and also strikingly bearing a resemblance to Iranian mines that have already been publicly displayed in Iranian military parades," Sean Kido, commanding officer of an explosive ordnance dive and salvage task group in the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT), told reporters.
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Or so it seems, based on a detailed timeline of Thursday's attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman provided by the U.S. Central Command, including a surveillance video of one of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps patrol boats removing an unexploded limpet mine from the hull of one of the damaged tankers.
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The head of the company which owns the Japanese tanker hit said last week its crew had reported flying objects damaged the ship, but Aryan said whoever attacked it and a Norwegian tanker had attached magnetic limpet mines with a timer when they were anchored or using a boat or marine drone when they were moving.
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WASHINGTON — With President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asserting that Iran was behind the explosions on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday and threatening military retaliation, the United States Central Command released a surveillance video showing what it said were Iranian sailors removing a weapon called a limpet mine from one of the ships.
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It struck back by placing limpet mines on oil tankers, by shooting down an American drone, by striking critical Saudi oil facilities, and by attacking Iraqi bases where US troops were stationed — all conducted in a manner to avoid direct responsibility and all with virtually no loss of life until an American contractor and some Iraqi security personnel were killed in one of the recent raids.
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