NEW DELHI, June 12 -- Aditya Sharma kept his father informed about the warnings. Two of them in the two weeks before the end, the deck cadet said over the phone, American naval voices on the radio telling his tanker to alter course. On June 9 the third message was a precision munition into the engine room of the MT Settebello in the Gulf of Oman. Sharma died there, alongside Shivanand Chaurasiya, an engine fitter, and Patnala Suresh, the ship's chief engineer. Twenty-one of their crewmates came off alive.

This time, New Delhi named the shooter.

India summoned a senior American diplomat in New Delhi and registered what it called a strong protest over the deaths, CBS News reported, with the foreign ministry declaring that "the targeting o...