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U.S. aircraft carrier moves into position for Afghanistan
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has moved from the Persian Gulf into the Gulf of Oman so its warplanes can fly missions over Afghanistan, where attacks have been rising, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
The carrier was ordered to move so it could conduct potential airstrikes over Afghanistan by flying over Pakistani airspace. If it had remained inside the Persian Gulf, that would not have been possible since U.S. planes do not fly through Iranian air corridors.
The carrier, which arrived Monday, is equipped with F/A-18s and an array of precision weapons.
"This puts it in a position where it has ability to strike far inland," a U.S. defense official said.
That´s great for the war on Afganistan, but it looks like a challenge to Iran as well, and shows how close we are to war with them. Maybe Bush is hoping Iran will feel threatened by a warship right off of their shores and attack? I thought a country needed permission though, but then again, we are the US. I´m a little concerned, tell me what you think. The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has moved from the Persian Gulf into the Gulf of Oman so its warplanes can fly missions over ... more -
Threatening voice from Iran incident may be famous heckler, 'Filipino Monkey&...
As reported in the Navy Times:
The threatening radio transmission heard at the end of a video of Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz may have come from a locally famous heckler known among ship drivers as the "Filipino Monkey."
Everyone catch that? Bush speechwriters, you hear? I want to hear the president say "The Filipino Monkey is a threat to world peace" by the end of the week. As reported in the Navy Times: ... more -
Iran vs. US Navy
Small Iranian fast boats swarmed around U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf, and a heavily accented voice threatened, "I am coming to you ... . You will explode after ... minutes," according to a video released by the Pentagon. But the Iranian military released its own version of the video, saying the Pentagon's was a fake. Small Iranian fast boats swarmed around U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf, and a heavily accented voice threatened, "I am coming ... more
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Iran boat incident REMIX!!! (I'm coming to yoooou)
You will explode after few minutes.
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ABC News: U.S. Voices on Recording May Not Have Been From Iranian Speedboats
Another unanswered question??? When will we have answers to all the questions? What did they know and when did they know it?
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US 'Comes Close To Firing On Iranian Ships'
Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats reportedly threatened three US Navy ships in international waters, around the Strait of Hormuz, in what's being called a "serious provocation" and American forces were on the verge of firing on the vessels after being "harrassed and provoked", according to Pentagon officials. As the captain of one of the US ships was about to give the order to fire, the Iranian vessels suddenly turned and sped away.
According to US Military officials, the five Iranian ships made "threatening" moves and in one case came within 200 yards of a US ship. The US military also claim the Iranians directly threatened them.
In one radio transmission, the Iranians allegedly told the US Navy: "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes."
In the end, no shots were fired. The Iranian government have given no response so far.
(The ship pictured is the USS Hopper, one of the US vessels reported to have been threatened). Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats reportedly threatened three US Navy ships in international waters, around the Strait of Hormuz, in w... more -
Iran: "US Navy Video Is A Clumsy Fake"
Iran has called the grainy video and audio released by the Pentagon, allegedly showing Iranian Revolutionary Guard Boats confronting US warships, "fabricated" and accused America of using archive footage to stitch them up.
"The footage released by the U.S. Navy was compiled using file pictures and the audio has been fabricated," the English-language channel Press TV quoted a senior in the Revolutionary Guards as saying.
"The voices and pictures broadcast by the Pentagon about the latest incident have been fabricated so clumsily that the pictures and voices in the video are not even synchronized," added the source.
US National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley echoed President Bush's earlier description of the Iranian move as "provocative."
"This is a provocative act - not a smart thing to do, and they are going to have to take responsibility for the consequences, if they do it again," Hadley said, adding that his comments should not be seen as a threat.
On Tuesday, The Pentagon released a short video that showed Iranian speed boats nipping around US warships in the Persian Gulf, with audio of heavily-accented English threatening, "I am coming to you. ... You will explode after ... minutes." In the video, the Iranian boats appear to ignore repeated warnings from the US ships. Iran has called the grainy video and audio released by the Pentagon, allegedly showing Iranian Revolutionary Guard Boats confronting U... more -
Iran Releases Own Video Of US Gulf Incident
Yesterday the US released footage of the alleged standoff between US navy and Iran coastal guard, but soon after it was claimed to be fake by the Iran officials.
To further support their claim, they now have released their own video showing a whole different picture.
The video can be seen on CNN right now, it has not yet been released on internet as far as i can see. Yesterday the US released footage of the alleged standoff between US navy and Iran coastal guard, but soon after it was claimed to be ... more -
POLITICS-US: Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel
"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."
More at link. "Despite the official and media portrayal of the incident in the Strait of Hormuz early Monday morning as a serious threat to U.S... more -
U.S. Describes Confrontation With Iranian Boats
In all the different news articles about that confrontation, the claim is made that this happened in the Strait of Hormuz in international waters - this is pure disinformation, for there are no international waters in the Strait of Hormuz. Indeed, the waters are shared by Iran and Oman, with no international water in-between. The US warships were either in Omani waters or in Iranian waters. Click on this link to see the full-sized map:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/ira... In all the different news articles about that confrontation, the claim is made that this happened in the Strait of Hormuz in internati... more
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