Pentagon video: Strait of Hormuz Confrontation

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[UPDATE Jan.9 2008:
Iran Says Ship Confrontation
Video/Audio Fake]
Pentagon video: Strait of Hormuz Incident
In a four-minute, 20-second video, shot from the bridge of the destroyer USS Hopper, the small boats - including a bright blue one - can be seen racing near the wake of the U.S. ships and crossing close to each other.
From the Hopper's bridge, after spotting the approaching Iranian boats, a navy crew member says over the radio: "This is coalition warship. I am engaged in transit passage in accordance with international law. I intend no harm. Over."
Often uneven and shaky, the video condenses what U.S. navy officials have said was a 20-minute or so clash early Sunday between three navy warships and five Iranian fast boats. It ends with a blank screen, as only the audio of the navy's final warning can be heard, just after the voice warns that they are coming.
"Inbound small craft: You are approaching a coalition warship operating in international waters. Your identity is unknown; your intentions are unclear," the unidentified navy crew member says. He then cautions the Iranians that if they do no steer clear they will be "subject to defensive measures."

"Request that you alter course immediately to remain clear," the crew member says.
After a pause, the man with the accent issues a final threat: "You will explode after (indecipherable) minutes."
A navy crew member then repeated the threat as he heard it: "You will explode after a few minutes?"
President George W. Bush on Tuesday denounced the incident as a "provocative act."
"It is a dangerous situation," Bush said during a White House news conference. "They should not have done it, pure and simple. ... I don't know what their thinking was, but I'm telling you what my thinking was. I think it was a provocative act."

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[boobitti]

People should start thinking by themselves.. not only what they say on tv...

[antoniofidel41]

We have to thank God that not all yanks, russians and brits are warmongers.

[ChilloutSessionZ]

who controls the journalism= zionist = rupert murdoct = owns 75 percent of the worlds media=can broadcast to 4.5 billion people with his message=which is the message of the jesuit illuminati=illusion which is factual that zionists run things=actuality its the vatican=simple equation for scumbag illuminati in USA to EUROPE.

[mahmoodakbarshamshir]

Journalism at its worst.

[Popajaja]

The US military industrial complex has interest in creating wars and tensions around the world. Why? To force congress to spend more on 'defense' and foreign nations to buy their weapon systems...

[noordwinter]

sailor and this is a complete fabrication of the events. look at the iranian footage..

[rahuling125]

the soldier at the start made it clear they intend no harm, that is for sure, we know that, however the usa fleet was very close to the border so this is a first stage reaction from the irainians its stanard procedure

[gunthaarz]

Ahmadinejad recently said, "We want peace, security, and progress for all the countries of the region, especially our neighbors. History has shown that Iran is a good neighbor. We are just working on nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes." His comments, of course, were not covered in the western media since they conveyed the message of a responsible

leader with benign motives rather than the ridiculous blather of madman.

[gunthaarz]

Ahmadinejad has done nothing to help his cause by blurting out absurd statements that have made him look foolish and irrational. (Israel should be "wiped off the map") Still, its doubtful that anyone could withstand the withering "swift-boating" of the western media once they commence their campaign of character-assassination, the likes of which we have seen many times before.

[lilblitz]

yea absoloutly, a US warship shoots down an iran air passenger jet with 300 civilians aboard on a designated flight path cos they thought it was a fucking space ship or whatever the excuse was yet they let a speedboat go on a lesure cruise for 15 minutes dropping packages saying in an american doing a terrorist accent, 'i will come soon and blow inside you' hahaha that was a clip from a gay arab porno! wow and i thought blaming 9/11 on a caveman was far fetched.

[trufreedom87]

They were on their borders where they belong,our ships are provoking them,and we are spewing more propaganda trying to start a war with Iran!

[trufreedom87]

This was all a lie!The pentagon says the voice came from a person on shore that was on the same radio wave that was crank calling them!What a joke, like someone would time it that perfect!They are trying to start a war with Iran and Americans are so dumb that we will let them!Keep on baaaa baaaa baaaaa sheep!We are letting criminals take us into wars that will bankrupt our country!