mine-laying

Ibrahim, the Libyan official, said he was unaware of the attempted mine-laying.

Gadhafi offers truce as NATO strikes in Tripoli 2011

"It seems unlikely any mining effort would go undetected—by making these threats, it's hard to imagine how the world could be more attuned" to what Iranian submarines and mine-laying vessels are doing in the crucial waterway, Ms. Talmadge said.

U.S. Targets Iran's Central Bank Carol E. Lee 2011

U.S. defense analysts say Iran also has three Soviet-built submarines, which can deploy mines, plus at least five mine-laying vessels, and other small craft that could set up mines.

U.S. Targets Iran's Central Bank Carol E. Lee 2011

Ibrahim, the Libyan official, said he was unaware of the attempted mine-laying.

Gadhafi offers truce as NATO strikes in Tripoli 2011

Trying to rid Central America of communism led to would-be secret CIA mine-laying in Nicaraguan harbors, about which the Senate Intelligence Committee claimed it had been informed, at best, only obliquely by the Agency.

Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010

In daily ambushes, rocket attacks and mine-laying operations, they have shifted their sights from police stations and other lightly defended targets to direct hits on the regular Army.

Militants On The March 2008

In September 1987, a special operations helicopter team attacked an Iranian mine-laying ship with a hail or rockets and machine-gun fire, killing three Iranian sailors.

Barry Lando: A Secret War Against Iran? We've Done It Once-Why Not Again? 2008

Here about 300 Tibetans in all -- assigned names like "Jack," "Rocky" and "Martin" -- were schooled in the black arts of covert warfare, from spy photography and sabotage to Morse code and mine-laying.

When Heaven Shed Blood 2008

Hickok was assigned to the USS Sicard, a mine-laying ship, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Remains Returned List WWII 2005

We were making for the low hills bounding the far side, intending to blow up a train; for Zaal said that where these touched the railway was such a curve as we needed for mine-laying, and that the spurs commanding it would give us ambush and a field of fire for our machine-guns.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003