The "threat" in the Strait of Hormuz incident came from the "Filipino Monkey"

[annabanana]

This is just too much! We are living in one huge nut house!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/the-cheneyites-nearly-sta_b_81233.html
The Cheneyites nearly started WWIII over "Filipino Monkey" radio signal...

Larisa Alexandrovna

"The threatening radio transmission heard at the end of a video showing harassing maneuvers by Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz may have come from a locally famous heckler known among ship drivers as the "Filipino Monkey."

Since the Jan. 6 incident was announced to the public a day later, the U.S. Navy has said it's unclear where the voice came from. In the videotape released by the Pentagon on Jan. 8, the screen goes black at the very end and the voice can be heard, distancing it from the scenes on the water.

[kurth]

1. This is a must read

... the voice in the audio sounds different from the one belonging to an Iranian officer shown speaking to the cruiser Port Royal over a radio from a small open boat in the video released by Iranian authorities. He is shown in a radio exchange at one point asking the U.S. warship to change from the common bridge-to-bridge channel 16 to another channel, perhaps to speak to the Navy without being interrupted.

Further, there's none of the background noise in the audio released by the U.S. that would have been picked up by a radio handset in an open boat.

So with Navy officials unsure and the Iranians accusing the U.S. of fabrications, whose voice was it? In recent years, American ships operating in the Middle East have had to contend with a mysterious but profane voice known by the ethnically insulting handle of "Filipino Monkey," likely more than one person, who listens in on ship-to-ship radio traffic and then jumps on the net shouting insults and jabbering vile epithets.

Navy women -- a helicopter pilot hailing a tanker, for example -- who are overheard on the radio are said to suffer particularly degrading treatment."'

[Blue_Tires]

2. Malkin? n/t

[annabanana]

4. naw.. It said a "locally FAMOUS heckler "

not a "fatuous" heckler . . .

[RainDog]

3. this whole incident was a lie

and I have no doubt, and would, in fact, expect that the nutcase Israeli "neocons" are helping Cheney/Bush get their new war on. This incident is an example of why the powerful fear the internet. truth is their real enemy.

[bleever]

5. If it takes the entire Navy,

and all of the regiments at the empire's command, Prince Albert will be freed from the can.

[EFerrari]

6. I love that DU called it from minute 1 as bs.

At least we live in a saner section of the Monkey House.

/The downside is I still can't type. lol

[LoZoccolo]

7. Yeah but that was the broken clock phenomenon.

How many people here had heard the radio transmission or even knew who the Filipino Monkey is (I happened to have heard about him years ago once)?

[bonito]

8. K&R n/t

[CGowen]

9. Why is there not more information on the monkey? n/t