The Navy now says it does not know if the voice recording threatening to explode American ships came from the Iranian boats. There is no background noise with the voice, such as boat engines or wind, and the voice is unlike any other heard on the tapes. Allegedly having come from a radio transmition, the tape is in fact separate from the video. As Houman Majd explains, any Iranian can immediately identify Persian-accented English, particularly if the speaker has had little contact with the West. Iranians, you see, have difficulty with two consonants such as "p" and "l" next to each other; even Iranians who have lived in America for years will often pronounce "please" as "peh-leeze", or in this case, "explode" as "exp-eh-lode". On the tape, "explode" is pronounced perfectly, albeit as if the speaker was a villain addressing a superhero. Here's to counting the days left before Bush is out of office. And to think, some of the Democratic candidates actually trust George Bush enough to have voted for the Iran Resolution (look to #6).
Friday, January 11, 2008
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3 comments:
1) Apparently there's a heckler that listens in on radio communications and interrupts at times.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-01-11-iranboat_N.htm
2) I read somewhere that similar occurrences to the one on Jan 6th have occurred. I don't remember where the article was from, but it gave two other specific dates within the previous year.
3) There was a question referring to the incident at the Republican Debates in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Transcript: http://www.cfr.org/publication/15249/
(search for "gates of hell"... lol)
Hey, Chad thanks for the update. So it turns out it was Howard Stern! lol...
"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 well known to Navy crews." - From the link Chad posted.
Oh, and look at Daily Kos' take on it:
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During today's White House press briefing, Dana Perino was asked about the recent Gulf of Tonkin incident in the Strait of Hormuz between Iranian boats and U.S. naval warships:
Q ...does the President still believe that the incident was as serious as he described it on Monday when he --
MS. PERINO: Absolutely.
Q He's not -- because the reports seemed to suggest that maybe it was not as serious as the White House and others had indicated.
MS. PERINO: Whose reports? The Iranians' reports? I mean, I've heard nothing different from what we have said...
Q Well, the fact that the video now is not clear that the statement that "we're coming after you" was referring to these five boats; that's a new fact that's different than --
MS. PERINO: I have not heard that.
Really? The White House hasn't heard that? Even though on the same day that George Bush was talking about the, "dangerous and provacative," act, it was reported that:
U.S. military officials, including Cosgriff [Vice Admiral 5th Fleet], cautioned, however, that they have not been able to connect definitively the radio call with one of the Revolutionary Guards boats.
Of course acknowledging that might have made Bush's comments the following day:
Iran is a threat to world peace. There was a recent intelligence report that came out that I think sent the signal to some that said perhaps the United States does not view an Iran with a nuclear weapon as serious -- as a serious problem..I said then that Iran was a threat, Iran is a threat, and Iran will be a threat if the international community does not come together and prevent that nation from the development of the know-how to build a nuclear weapon."
...all options are on the table to protect our assets.
...seem like desperate saber-rattling from a president who was forced to go from warnings of World War III and mushroom clouds, to the development of know-how.
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