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Iran Airs Own Video Of US Ship Incident

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran on Thursday aired its own video of an incident in the Strait of Hormuz with US warships, in a bid to counter Pentagon accusations that the Iranians warned they could blow up the American vessels.

The four-minute video broadcast by Iran's English-language channel Press-TV showed an Iranian commander in a speedboat contacting an American sailor via radio, asking him to identify the US vessels and state their purpose.

"Coalition warship number 73, this is an Iranian patrol," the Iranian commander is heard to say in English, asking for the vessel to confirm its number.

"This is coalition warship number 73. I am operating in international waters," replied the American voice.

State-run Press-TV said the footage had been released by the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological force involved in the incident.

The Pentagon released a video and audio tape on Tuesday that it said confirmed US charges that Iranian speedboats swarmed around US warships in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday and radioed a threat to blow them up.

The alleged confrontation has further inflamed tensions between Iran and the United States which are locked in a standoff over Tehran's controversial nuclear drive.

The tape showed "warship number 73" -- the USS Port Royal -- looming in the foreground and also showed the two other US vessels in the incident, the USS Hopper and the USS Ingraham.

A helicopter was also shown hovering above the US ships.

"Request your present course and speed!" added the Iranian commander, who was wearing a yellow lifejacket and the kefiyeh scarf often sported by Iranian revolutionary forces.

The dialogue in the video was repetitive and sometimes technical, with the sides agreeing to switch from channel 16 to channel 11 on their radios.

However Iran clearly sees the release of the footage as buttressing its claims that the incident was purely a routine matter of identification that ended without any disturbance.

"Iran clearly just wanted to identify the vessels and find out what they were doing," concluded the Press-TV anchor.

The Revolutionary Guards had said the day earlier that the film released by the Pentagon was a "clumsy fake" where the sound and image were not properly synchronized.

The US video, which the Pentagon said was taken from the bridge of the USS Hopper, showed Iranian boats approaching the warships at high speeds and racing around its hull.

A man's voice is heard in an audio recording speaking in English, amid a sailor's urgent warnings to stay clear of the ship.

"I am coming to you ... You will explode in a few minutes," the voice is heard to say.

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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080110/world/iran_us_military

[caniff]

"Clumbsy"?

[TML1976]

here is the Iranian video.

So much for the "we are going to bomb you" threat that washington made a big deal out of.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8f6_1199959765

[igotthisguitar]

When i first heard this report my gut feeling was GULF OF TONKIN ( reloaded )

The neo-nazi cons have long been dying for even the slightest provocational pretext
they can gleefully "spin" into a few more million deaths

[Ya-ta Boy]

The important question to ask is: Is Press TV as bad as Arirang TV?

[caniff]

Why the hell were the Iranians playing around with the US crafts? What were they trying to prove, do you think?

And there were multiple Iranian boats. Who was doing what?

[igotthisguitar]

US Drops 18,000 KG Of "Precision" Explosives
In Iraq Bombing Blitz

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Bombers dropped 40,000 pounds (18,000 kilograms) of explosives on 40 targets in an Al-Qaeda bastion on the southern outskirts of Baghdad in a 10-minute airstrike Thursday, the US military said.

The attack by B-1 bombers and F-16 fighters on Arab Jabour village was part of a nationwide operation against Al-Qaeda, codenamed Phantom Phoenix, launched by US and Iraqi forces on Tuesday.

"Thirty-eight bombs were dropped within the first 10 minutes, with a total tonnage of 40,000 pounds," a US military statement said.

"More than 40 targets were hit after precision air strikes destroyed reported Al-Qaeda safehavens in Arab Jabour," it added, without explaining how 38 bombs had destroyed 40 targets.

"The Air Force provided two B-1 Bombers and four F-16 fighter jets, aiming at three large target areas. Each bomber passed over twice and the F-16s followed to complete the set."

It gave no details of casualties.

The bombings were carried out as ground troops of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division closed in on the area, the statement said.

Nine US soldiers were killed in the first two days of Phantom Phoenix, including six who died in an explosion as they entered a booby-trapped house in restive Diyala province on Wednesday.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/iraq_unrest_us_qaeda

[caniff]

[Ya-ta Boy]

I speculate that there are different factions in the Revolutionary Guards and in the government and some of the factions prefer a hostile relationship with the Great Satan. The report that was released a couple of weeks ago significantly reduced tensions and I think the nasty factions pulled this boating incident to restore things to a state more to their liking.

Someone else said maybe these were the local version of rednecks.

[caniff]

[ddeubel]

God help us all.

I"m surprised some people have even learned how to swallow.

That grown men do such childish things is just the most INhuman thing I can think of. It is all just babalok -- useless aggression. Dogs fighting over bones.....

DD

[igotthisguitar]

Those poor US warships must feel so terribly threated by hulking Iranian dingys too, huh?

[caniff]

Yeah, until one rides up to it and pulls a "USS Cole", right IGTG?

Pull your head out of your azz. This isn't make-believe time. Real countries don't play fcking games like the Iranians have been playing.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing[/i]

[ddeubel]

caniff,

I think you have to somehow expel your cranium from that gluteal region.

You don't get the BIG picture at all. Keep oiling your GI Joes. Put another RAMBO video on and order another Dr. Pepper!
DD

[igotthisguitar]