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By evening, three hours from Gaza, in international waters, the boat was surrounded by eight Israeli navy ships, which proceeded to jam its communications systems (shades of Israel's deadly 1967 attack on the USSLiberty), threatened to fire on the unarmed boat, and ordered the captain to return to Cyprus. According to State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood, The Department of State's highest priority is the protection of U.S. citizens abroad.
CHINA BLINDED U.S. CREW A Chinese warship fired a high-powered beam of light that disrupted the vision of crew members aboard a U.S. Navy surveillance ship operating in international waters in 2008.
When Maine Maritime Academy's training vessel State of Maine docks in Barcelona, Spain, later this month on its annual training cruise, it will be carrying with it a display promoting boats built in its home-port state. Maine Built Boats Inc., the nonprofit organization created to promote the state's boat-building industry, will make its first official foray into international markets during a reception scheduled as part of the ship's visit to Spain. The State of Maine left Castine on May 3.
Israel's security agencies are stepping up targeted attacks throughout the world on Hamas' leadership in what one Israeli official called "intelligence-based prevention. In the past two months, Israeli operatives have intercepted a German ship in international waters, fired a missile at a suspected Hamas leader in Sudan, and captured a Hamas engineer in the Ukraine, according to Israeli and Western officials and press reports from the region.
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