Pentagon Backtracks On Naval Confrontation With Iran, Says Threat May Not Have Come From Iranians

Pentagon Backtracks On Naval Confrontation With Iran, Says Threat May Not Have Come From Iranians

Earlier this week, the Pentagon said that three of its Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz had been harassed and provoked by Iranian speedboats. The Navy said it had felt so threatened that it was about to open fire on the boats. A four-minute video of the episode provided to the public by the Pentagon contained one particularly harrowing moment:

“I am coming to you,” a heavily accented voice says in English. “You will explode after a few minutes.”

Navy officials said the voice was recorded from the internationally recognized bridge-to-bridge radio channel.

Some bloggers were immediately skeptical, noting the voice did not sound Iranian. Iran released its own video, arguing the footage did not show any Iranian boats approaching the U.S. vessels, nor any provocation. Today, the Navy acknowledged that the verbal threat made in the tape may not have been Iranian:

“We’re saying that we cannot make a direct connection to the boats there,” said the spokesperson. “It could have come from the shore, from another ship passing by. However, it happened in the middle of all the very unusual activity, so as we assess the information and situation, we still put it in the total aggregate of what happened Sunday morning. I guess we’re not saying that it absolutely came from the boats, but we’re not saying it absolutely didn’t.”


Rest of article at: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/10/iran-gunboats/



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He's out trying to start a war based on BAD INFORMATION AGAIN.

Up his meds, or whatever, but make sure he backs down. He does love a good war, as long as he doesn't have to actually fight it and it brings in tons of money for his cronies.

cause he is worth a lot more as a martyr for sympathy votes and a reason to nuke Iran than a wet brain alcoholic torture monkey liability

if he gets back from this one i will be really supprised... they do eat their own

The GOP would cream their drawers to have a 'martyr' ... and looking forward to the Loose Cannon that's Duhbya has to be scarey for them.

dialog actually was, "I'm about to come in you. You will explode from my penis!"

their course to prevent them from straying into their territory.. particularly belligerent perpetual warmongers who are constantly threatening to nuke you on bullshit evidence they constantly make up and have invaded your neighbor based on the same lies, totally destroyed Iraq's economy and deliberately kept them in total chaos, stoled their oil, killed hundreds of thousands of civilions....

need i go on about why they don't want us to start an international incident.. by 'straying' into their waters, especially since we used the bay of Tonkin incident to bomb N Viet Nam into the dark ages, in one of our past empire building events... we haven't let up on those guys for a long time.. they just expect more of the same.

the whole world is sitting on the edge of their chairs biting their nails with their hearts pounding in fear ..till that wet brain alcoholic psychotic Moran and his pack of thieves and war mongers are out of the white house

we dont need to beat the drum of perpetual war and fear for them