BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: The Pentagon says U.S. sailors have now boarded a Russian ship in the Persian Gulf. The vessel is suspected of smuggling oil out of Iraq; this in violation of a U.N. Embargo. For more, live to the Pentagon and CNN's Jamie McIntyre -- Jamie.</s>JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN MILITARY AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Well, Bill, U.S. sailors at this hour are still on that Russian flag tanker in international waters in the Gulf of Oman. Russia insists that the tanker was simply moving heating oil from Iran to the U.A.E., but the U.S. is convinced it was smuggling oil out of Iraq. For one thing, they saw the ship go to Iraq and then hug the Iranian coastline, staying in Iranian waters so it could not be touched until it got down to the south where it had to make a dash across international waters in order to get to the U.A.E.. That's where a U.S. cruiser stopped the ship. The U.S. is convinced that when they get the results back from oil samples they've taken on the ship, it will show, in fact, that it is Iraqi oil. If that's the case, the ship will be diverted and the oil will be seized. This is just one of hundreds of boardings that have taken place as the U.S. and British ships enforce an oil embargo, but it's a pretty leaky embargo. Pentagon sources say, last month, 130 ships are suspected of being able to get in and out of Iraq, bringing millions of dollars in oil revenue to Saddam Hussein. Jamie McIntyre, CNN, live at the Pentagon.</s>DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Jamie, thank you.
U.S. Sailors Board Russian Ship Suspected of Smuggling Iraqi Oil