Iran is joking.......right?

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gLing said:
Are you Iranian or something? They made the threatening moves not the US so it would have been THEM that started an international incident.
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But who really would believe that 3 gunships would attack a cruiser and 2 other vessels? It would reach a point where it didn't matter who started it, people on both sides would end up dead and the government of the vessels involved (in this case the US) would be blamed! More propaganda to stir up trouble!! Better to keep an eye on them and try to avoid conflict if pos.
 
Re: iran are joking.......right?

gLing said:
Are you Iranian or something? They made the threatening moves not the US so it would have been THEM that started an international incident.
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Have you watched the video, and heard the audio of the Iranians threat's? It's complete bullshit! Listen to the audio and tell me it doesn't sound like an American immitating Iranians.

Also, the US is also known for fabricating bullshit to warrant a strike on the Iranians.
 
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juggler said:
But who really would believe that 3 gunships would attack a cruiser and 2 other vessels? It would reach a point where it didn't matter who started it, people on both sides would end up dead and the government of the vessels involved (in this case the US) would be blamed! More propaganda to stir up trouble!! Better to keep an eye on them and try to avoid conflict if pos.
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They were speed boats. And travelling out into international waters in little speedboats also sounds like BS.
 
Yeah, I thought so..

The Associated Press: Gulf Prankster Possible Message Source

Associated Press said:
Gulf Prankster Possible Message Source

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CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — A threatening radio message at the end of a video showing Iranian patrol boats swarming near U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf may have come from a prankster rather than from the Iranian vessels, the Navy Times newspaper has reported.
A video and audio of the Jan. 6 incident in the Strait of Hormuz featured a man in accented English saying "I am coming to you. ... You will explode after ... minutes."
Cmdr. Lydia Robertson, spokeswoman for the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, said the Navy was still trying to determine the source of the transmission but believed it was related to the Iranian actions.
"The Iranian boats were coming close to the ships, making aggressive maneuvers and objects were being dropped into the water," she told The Associated Press.
However, the Navy Times, a weekly newspaper published by the Gannett company, quoted several veteran sailors as speculating the transmission could have come from a radio heckler, widely known among mariners by the ethnically insulting term "the Filipino Monkey."
The newspaper, which serves the Navy community, said U.S. sailors in the Persian Gulf have heard the prankster — possibly more than one person — transmitting "insults and jabbering vile epithets" on unencrypted frequencies.
"Navy women — a helicopter pilot hailing a tanker, for example — who are overheard on the radio are said to suffer particularly degrading treatment," the newspaper said Sunday. "Several Navy ship drivers interviewed by Navy Times are raising the possibility that the Monkey, or an imitator, was indeed featured in that video."
Filipino Monkey is a name used by mariners around the globe for someone who uses his radio for unnecessary or inappropriate transmissions.
It also is sometimes used by the prankster himself. Two Navy officers said they have personally been aboard ships elsewhere in the world when all of a sudden they've heard someone from another vessel come on the radio and say, "Filipino Monkey, Filipino Monkey" over and over again in a singsong voice.
U.S. Navy officials at Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain could not immediately be reached for comment. However, Navy officials have said they were unsure where the transmission came from.
The threat, however, ratcheted up tensions in the incident, which began when Iranian patrol boats swarmed around three U.S. Navy vessels near Iranian waters in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has denied that its boats threatened the U.S. vessels and accused Washington of fabricating video and audio it released. Iran's government has released its own video, which appeared to be shot from a small boat bobbing at least yards from the American warships.
The Navy Times quoted Rick Hoffman, a retired captain, as saying a renegade talker repeatedly harassed ships in the Gulf in the late 1980s.
"For 25 years there's been this mythical guy out there who, hour after hour, shouts obscenities and threats," he said. "He could be tied up pierside somewhere or he could be on the bridge of a merchant ship," Hoffman said.
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Pudding Time said:
Yeah, I thought so..

The Associated Press: Gulf Prankster Possible Message Source
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OK, but your insinuation that it was the United States Navy that created this event is absolutely insulting. It was someone who wanted to start something between two nations already giving each other the evil eye. I think you know me well enough to know that I won't tolerate this slandering here. I hope that the Admins will please take note seeing as we just had a big blow up about this not 2 days ago.

Express your opinion, but don't be insulting while doing it please.
 
LOL!
Am I supposed to check with you everytime I want to express my opinion here? I think not.

Yeah, looks like I was wrong about it. Oh well.

As far as you being insulted by it, ummmmmm, tough cookies? We aren't going to see eye to eye on everything, and sometimes we are going to really detest the other's opinion. But we are entitled to our opinions, and this admin here has expressed their encouragement for freedom of expression here at OTz. So I will continue to express my opinion how I see fit.

Have a good day :D
 
Re: iran are joking.......right?

Pudding Time said:
Have you watched the video, and heard the audio of the Iranians threat's? It's complete bullshit! Listen to the audio and tell me it doesn't sound like an American immitating Iranians.

Also, the US is also known for fabricating bullshit to warrant a strike on the Iranians.
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bit difficult since gina is profoundly deaf:(
 
Pudding Time said:
LOL!
Am I supposed to check with you everytime I want to express my opinion here? I think not.

Yeah, looks like I was wrong about it. Oh well.

As far as you being insulted by it, ummmmmm, tough cookies? We aren't going to see eye to eye on everything, and sometimes we are going to really detest the other's opinion. But we are entitled to our opinions, and this admin here has expressed their encouragement for freedom of expression here at OTz. So I will continue to express my opinion how I see fit.

Have a good day :D
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That's not what they've put out here. You're free to express your opinion, but you don't have to be insulting while you're doing it. Admiting you were wrong is a big thing, but an apology for being insulting would be the icing on the cake.
 
hubersrj said:
That's not what they've put out here. You're free to express your opinion, but you don't have to be insulting while you're doing it. Admiting you were wrong is a big thing, but an apology for being insulting would be the icing on the cake.
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Not going to happen mate.

And tell me. How died and made you judge of what opinion is or is not insulting?
 
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