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Navy dlscove By Nablla Megalll Toe Assoc afeo Press MANAMA Bahrain US. Navy forces recovered at least three location with infomation from crewmen of a captured Iranian vessel L S. officials and shipping sources said. The explosives were found by American 'We mrght use Lt for target practice U S ottlclal on the captured lranlan gunboat Iran Alr YS ITIOYB ITIIHSS first proof Iran denied the ship was planting mines Five Iranians were killed and four when the U S helicopters assaultedyfllildngfiled with machine gun fire and rockets Monday P Pentagon sources said it was not yet clear whether the detained Iranians who wer-she. ing held on Navv ships would be transported to Oman by helicopter or flown from an-plane from Bahrain I l , ' ' J , , ' . mines in the Persian Gulf, pinpointing their ' ' V U I u warships and helicopters during a mine sweeping operation Wednesday in the central Persian Gulf, where the Iranian ship was attacked by U.S. helicopters this week. Pentagon sources in Washington said the United States hoped to transport the 26 Iran- ians detained in the attack to Oman today, to be released to the Intemational Red Crescent Society, the Islamic equivalent of the Red Cross. Shipping sources said Navy warships were escorting a reflagged Kuwaiti tanker through the gulf today, but Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger denied the convoy had left Kuwait. Gulf-based shipping executives, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Navy had found eight moored, contact-type mines in the central gulf. Weinberger, speaking from Washington in a television interview, said three mines had been located Wednesday and the Navy ex- pected to find others. He said some of the crewmen from the 1,662-ton Iran Ajr had provided information that helped American forces locate the mines. U.S. naval vessels often anchor in the area where the devices were found, about 50 miles northeast of Bahrain. Another Pentagon official, speaking on con- dition of anonymity, said charts showing safe, unmined routes through the Persian Gulf had been discovered on the Iranian vessel. Senior U.S. naval officers have maintained for weeks the Iranians were sowing mines in international waters in the gulf, but they said the U.S. capture of the Iran Ajr provided the IJ .S. officials have not announced what they plan to do with the Iran Ajr. 'fWe might use it for target practice, said one scum in Washington. It's definitely not going back to Iran. Pentagon officials said threats of Iranian reprisal for the ship attack would not deter Weinberger from leaving as scheduled for a five-day trip to the area. He was to visit Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and U.S. war- ships in the region. The departure of the 46,723-ton Gas Prince and Navy escorts from Kuwait would be the 10th convoy since President Reagan's pro- gram of retlagging I1 Kuwaiti tankers with tllie Stars and Stripes went into, effect in mid- u y. 4 i 3 .rf