After all the hullabaloo over Iranian Navy ships supposedly threatening American military vessels in Boratesque voice and grammar, now a spokesman for the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet is conceding that the voice may not have come from the Iranians at all:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011008R.shtml [ABC News link]
Where did it come from, then? From Sascha Baron Cohen doing a voiceover?
Come on, the Iranians threaten to "explode" a U.S. Navy ship and the Americans simply keep their cool and turn away without firing a shot? This is the same U.S. Navy that downed an Iranian passenger airliner full of hajj pilgrims in 1988*. Of course, our American media with their selective amnesia conveniently neglected to make the link. And of course, our credulous American public swallowed the official U.S. military version hook, line, and sinker.
*Later, after the U.S. blamed the murder on "faulty radar equipment" - which happened to be the most sophisticated radar equipment known to man, and which happened never to malfunction that way before or since - the Navy rewarded each member of the ship with medals for bravery. What kind of sick culture gives medals to men for murdering women and children pilgrims flying home?
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Awesome! I haven't seen this discussed much in the American media. No one's touching it.
The voice of the supposed Iranian on the video sounded like it came out of a made-for-tv horror movie.
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