AP: US Navy added the audio to Iranian boat incident video

[sabra]

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/08/1213018-transcript-of-iran-us-navy-clash

The U.S. Navy video tape and audio recording that the Pentagon released Tuesday of the confrontation between a three-ship Navy convoy and five small Iranian boats in the Persian Gulf is 4 minutes and 20 seconds long.

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U.S. crew member: "This is coalition warship. I am engaged in transit passage in accordance with international law." After a pause he resumes: "This is coalition warship. I am engaged in transit passage in accordance with international law. I intend no harm. Over."

Mostly inaudible internal ship communications follow.

At one point a crew member is heard saying the Iranian boats are "approximately two miles from coalition warships."

The video recording was made separately from the recording of the radio communications; they were put together by the Navy.

As the video camera tracks movement of two or three of the Iranian boats at a distance, the U.S. crew member is heard repeating his radio message: "You are approaching coalition warship operating in international waters. Request you establish communications, identify yourself and state your intentions. Over."

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The U.S. ship repeats its message to the boats by radio transmission: "You are approaching coalition warship operating in international waters. Request you establish communications, identify yourself and state your intentions." In the video tape, these words are nearly drowned out by the repeated blare of a U.S. ship's warning horn.

After the video tape turns black, the audio track resumes with an accented, deep male voice saying clearly in English, "I am coming to you." He emphasizes the word "coming" and stretches out the word "you."

An American voice is then heard: "Inbound small craft: You are approaching a coalition warship operating in international waters. Your identity is not known; your intentions are unclear. You are sailing into danger and may be subject to defensive measures. Request you establish communications now or alter your course immediately to remain clear. Request you alter course immediately to remain clear."

Accented voice in English: "You will explode after (indecipherable) minutes."

American voice, apparently speaking to fellow crew members: "He says, 'You will explode after a few minutes.'"

[NightWatcher]

1. "put together by the US Navy" aka faked?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/09/iran.boats/in...

CNN) -- Iran has denounced video and audio recordings released by the United States of the two nations' confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz as "fabricated," according to statements carried by state-run television station.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman downplayed the incident Wednesday, calling it "normal," state-run news agency IRNA reported. "The case ... was similar to the past ones and it was a regular and natural issue," Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said, IRNA reported.

And the state-run Press TV quoted a spokesman for Iran's Revolutionary Guard Navy as saying that the video "had been compiled using file pictures and the audio had been fabricated."

The Pentagon Tuesday released a four-minute, 20-second video of Sunday's incident, including video showing small Iranian boats swarming around U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf. In the audio recording, a man speaking in heavily accented English threatened, "I am coming to you. ...You will explode after ... minutes."

[Marrah_G]

5. Put together does not mean faked

What it means is that the communications officer was not talking into a video camera.

There was a tape of the boats approaching and they put that together with the audio from the communications system.

Seriously...the communications officer is not on deck with a camera.

[cynatnite]

2. Seemed rather obvious that was the case when I watched it n/t

[DS1]

3. Holy Deceptive Headline, Batman

Combining video and audio to make a tape is much different than "adding audio"

[Fierce]

12. Yeah, I clicked on this just because of the headline.

But reading the story, it's obvious that the two were made separately and combined.

[gratuitous]

4. The Iranians are saying the tape is a fake

And considering our military's record of credibility in the last five years, I'm sorry to say that I have no basis for figuring out who might be nearer the truth of what happened. We need to get out of this area, and we need to get out yesterday. We need a massive overhaul of the Pentagon and our funding mechanisms, a top-to-bottom re-evaluation of every military contract.

[Ian David]

6. Did they threaten to detonate their Corbomite? n/t

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. Thanks, a star trek reference is good for a chuckle.

:hi:

[lpbk2713]

7. It's not like BushCo has never used the Navy for their own purposes before.

[Thothmes]

9. That makes sense

Bridge to Bridge VHF freq was probably what the communications were over and recorded. There is no video cameras associated with this communications net. The film was shot by crewmen. JMO

[DS1]

11. Yes, but we still need DU to read a headline and jump to conclusions

:)

[liberal N proud]

10. You know the bu$h regime has to do something to start war with Iran

They have an unfinished bullet point from the PNAC