A US warship that participated in the first military strikes against Afghanistan has docked in India's southeastern port of Madras for three days of refueling and rest for its 348 crew members, US officials said on Tuesday. The USS O'Brien, a Spruance-class destroyer, docked in Madras on Monday and will leave Thursday, the US Embassy said. "This comes under the government of India's decision to provide logistic support to the US forces involved in the global war against terrorism," said Indian navy Rear Admiral S C S Bangara. "Whenever US ships want refueling halts or other support, we will be providing it." The berth where the 563-foot O'Brien is docked was cordoned off by armed US navy sailors and Indian security force officers, The Statesman newspaper reported. "I cannot say where we came from or where we are going," the paper quoted the ship's captain, Navy Cmdr. Marcus B. Yonehiro, as saying. "I can only say that we are part of the Seventh Fleet patrolling the Arabian Sea in support of Operation Enduring Freedom." The O'Brien, based in Yokosuka, Japan, was part of a flotilla of 40 US and UK ships and submarines that launched Tomahawk cruise missiles, planes with 500-pound gravity bombs and computer-guided bombs from positions in the Arabian Sea on October 7, U.S. officials in Washington said. US officials said that the targets were radar installations, surface-to-air missiles, airfields, aircraft, military command and control installations and militant camps in Afghanistan - strongholds of the Taliban regime and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network. The US accuses bin Laden, sheltered by the Taliban, of plotting the September 11 terror attacks on the US. Bureau Report