Iranian boats harass U.S. navy ships: PentagonIran tells a different story......
Last Updated: Monday, January 7, 2008 12:29 PM ET
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Three United States navy ships on their way to the Persian Gulf were harassed and provoked by Iranian boats, a Pentagon official said Monday.
The U.S. cruiser, destroyer and frigate encountered five boats believed to be from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's navy at 5 a.m. local time Sunday while traversing the Strait of Hormuz, a Persian Gulf shipping channel.
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how come we never get to know who says?Iran plays down Gulf incident with US
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer 28 minutes ago
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's Foreign Ministry said Monday that a confrontation between Iranian boats and U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf over the weekend was "something normal" and was resolved. It suggested the Iranian boats had not recognized the U.S. vessels.
The Pentagon said that in the incident early Sunday, five small Iranian boats repeatedly "charged" U.S. warships in the Gulf's Hormuz Strait and dropped boxes in the water. The boats warned the U.S. ships that they would set up "explosions," a U.S. Defense Department official said.
The U.S. craft were on the verge of opening fire when the Iranian boats fled, the official said, calling the incidident "the most serious provocation of its sort" in the Gulf. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record.
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and bush steadfastly refuses to let facts get in his way
During Mideast tour, Bush to insist Iran remains a threat
by Laurent Lozano Mon Jan 7, 3:48 AM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush will try this week to reassure US allies in the Middle East that his administration continues to view Iran as a threat and will not abandon its friends in the face of it. Bush leaves for the region Tuesday in a bid to give a boost to the peace process between Israelis and the
Palestinians.
But another key purpose of the trip is to repair damage caused by a recent radical
reappraisal of the nuclear threat coming from Iran that was undertaken by the US
intelligence community."Part of the reason I'm going to the Middle East is to make it abundantly clear to nations in that part of the world that we view Iran as a threat, and that the NIE in no way lessens that threat, but in fact clarifies the threat,"
Bush told the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot as he referred to the National Intelligence Estimate produced by US intelligence agencies.
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1 comment:
facts and Bush don't seem to exist in the same world. Sometimes I be a fly in that cranial vaccuum just to see how his version of logic and understanding computes.
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