ABC News: US Navy says Voices on Recording May Not Have Been From Iranian Speedboats

[sabra]

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4115702&page=1

U.S.: Voices on Recording May Not Have Been From Iranian Speedboats
Chilling Threat Could Have Come From the Shore or Another Ship, Navy Says


Just two days after the U.S. Navy released the eerie video of Iranian speedboats swarming around American warships, which featured a chilling threat in English, the Navy is saying that the voice on the tape could have come from the shore or from another ship.

The near-clash occurred over the weekend in the Strait of Hormuz. On the U.S.-released recording, a voice can be heard saying to the Americans, "I am coming to you. You will explode after a few minutes."

The Navy never said specifically where the voices came from, but many were left with the impression they had come from the speedboats because of the way the Navy footage was edited.

Today, the spokesperson for the U.S. admiral in charge of the Fifth Fleet clarified to ABC News that the threat may have come from the Iranian boats, or it may have come from somewhere else.

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."

[bullimiami]

1. or edited in by the post production department in the pentagon.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. This just keeps getting better and better! Does anyone think the voices might have come

from some smartass sailor on one of the ships.

[Junkdrawer]

3. Or a Blackwater PsyOps guy trying to start the US/Iranian war. n/t

[Common Sense Party]

6. That was my first guess. Some sailor narrating the events as he

saw them, with a sardonic sense of humor and a bad accent.

[GrahmMan]

12. Yeah because a US Sailor would LOVE

to start some shit with Iran.

[Lerkfish]

18. oh, the irony.

:)

[Common Sense Party]

29. Who said the sailor wanted to start anything?

Making wisecracks on deck is hardly a way to start an international incident.

[GrahmMan]

8. Or from a merchant or fisherman

Seems more likely given the way things normally go over there.

[Whisp]

19. I say it was Joe Lieberman. nt

[momster]

31. 1 Vote for Dick Cheney

With a Mister Microphone in the men's room -- only because there's better acoustics in there or so he swears.

[Whisp]

35. another Bowels of hell Movement from Dicky? nt

[TomInTib]

34. That was my first thought.

Some asshole going Borat and talking like that.

[EFerrari]

4. You can't make this stuff up.

Shame on the Navy for allowing this embarrassment.

[veniceboy]

5. Translation- Well we tried to start a war...

But couldn't with this fabricated nonsense. Now if we pretend that this clearly fake sound was simply picked up from a passing boat as opposed to a paid actor maybe we can avoid additional investigation of this attempt to drumb up support for a war and/or distract from ruin that is the republican party.

[GrahmMan]

10. Or it really was from a passing ship

Because I would bet dollars to donuts that is what it was.

[sabra]

15. can you back that up?

[Lerkfish]

16. amazing. You're STILL willing to buy the administration spin.

well, hey, in that case, where's that hundred dollars you owe me?

[GrahmMan]

27. I suggeted the "administrations spin"

On these boards before anyone else said it and before the press release, why?

BECAUSE IT IS COMPLETELY PLAUSIBLE AND LIKELY!

If you have spend any time in the gulf doing maritime business you know that there are assholes who threaten you on bridge to bridge just because they know they can get away with it.

Sounds like a thousand other idiots in the Gulf that I have talked to on the radio over the years.

[veniceboy]

17. Really?

I have a bridge for sale that might interest you.

[Whisp]

20. Translation - all your sheeps are belong to us. nt

[Solly Mack]

7. Well, now we know where Cheney is

(I kid, I kid)

mostly

[Lint Head]

9. This is as phony as the day is long. Bush is trying with all his might

to leave a legacy even if it is phony. 1.) Attack Iran for attacking us. 2.) Bring peace between Israel and Lebanon. This fucker
needs to go to jail for treason. :dem:

[endarkenment]

11. Reminds me of a Pakistani assassination investigation.

We can't even lie competently any more.

[sakabatou]

13. More and more evidence of a Tonkin event

[indepat]

23. Ain't all this special

[Lerkfish]

14. "the way the Navy footage was edited"

I'd say the Navy Psyops is going to have a quick opening for a better video editor

LOL!

[Dawggie]

21. Have you HEARD the tapes?

They sound like an amateur trying to do an accent.

God, I'm thinking Gulf of Tomkin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Incident (for those of you who were too young for Viet Nam and aren't familiar with).

Bushco needs to start something fast so he can postpone the elections and complete his efforts of turning America Fascist.

[DS1]

22. Maybe it's very poorly translated CB-Radio sex

I am coming to you. You will explode after a few minutes.


oh yea, big 10 4 on that one

[GrahmMan]

30. Anyone who has listened to Porn

Broadcast on the radio in the gulf agrees fully :)

[hunter]

36. 10 4 is one big sausage.

A terrible new danger to the U.S! Flirty Iranian Navy Boys! Be Afraid!

[Rock_Garden]

24. I knew it.

[focusfan]

25. I told you Bush had no credabilty

i guess there changing there tune now that the Iraian boat has
there video of what really happened.

[GrahmMan]

32. The Iranian Video did not show shit

They showed the IRG querying the PORT ROYAL who was likely the group commander.

The incident happened to the HOPPER, behind them in formation.

[Lerkfish]

37. you seem awfully invested in making sure we buy this brooklyn bridge

what is your investment, exactly? You keep talking like you were there.

[bigtree]

26. CIA

Cheney's special ops

[The Backlash Cometh]

28. Anyone on DU surprised? By tomorrow they'll fess up that it was some

kid on the US ship playing it up on his Ham radio.

[killbotfactory]

33. Duh

Shameless goddamn warmongers.