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So, where did the US nuclear submarine collide with the Japanese oil tanker?

Tue, 01/09/2007 - 9:52pm — lambert

041025-N-0780F-081 In the Straits of Hormuz. (Sorry, missed that one Monday.) Whoopsie:

The Japanese Transport Minister is demanding more information after a US nuclear-powered submarine collided with a Japanese oil tanker near the busy shipping lanes of the Straits of Hormuz on Monday night.

A spokesman for Japan's Foreign Ministry said the USS Newport News collided with the stern of the Japanese tanker, Mogamikawa.

No-one had been seriously hurt and there was no spillage of oil or nuclear fuel as a result of the incident, the officials added.

My goodness! What could a submarine have been doing there?

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