POLITICS-US: Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel

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"Despite the official and media portrayal of the incident in the Strait of Hormuz early Monday morning as a serious threat to U.S. ships from Iranian speedboats that nearly resulted in a "battle at sea", new information over the past three days suggests that the incident did not involve such a threat and that no U.S. commander was on the verge of firing at the Iranian boats.

"The new information that appears to contradict the original version of the incident includes the revelation that U.S. officials spliced the audio recording of an alleged Iranian threat onto to a videotape of the incident. That suggests that the threatening message may not have come in immediately after the initial warning to Iranian boats from a U.S. warship, as appears to do on the video.

"Also unraveling the story is testimony from a former U.S. naval officer that non-official chatter is common on the channel used to communicate with the Iranian boats and testimony from the commander of the U.S. 5th fleet that the commanding officers of the U.S. warships involved in the incident never felt the need to warn the Iranians of a possible use of force against them."

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  • added January 11, 2008
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2 responses // POLITICS-US: Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel

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    The events of the last couple of days clearly indicate how the media can be used to create tension between political regimes.

    yonie
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    once again

    *cough* Tonkin Gulf *cough*

    sushicombo

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