Pentagon now says 'Threat may have come from heckler, not Iran'

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http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=16568

Threatening comments heard at the end of a Pentagon-released audio in the Strait of Hormuz may have come from a local heckler.

Threatening comments heard at the end of a Pentagon-released audio recording designed to prove harassing manoeuvres by Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz may have come from a local heckler known as the "Filipino Monkey," The Navy Times reported. snip

A voice on the audiotape is heard to say in accented English: "I am coming to you ... You will explode in a few minutes."

Pentagon officials now say they do not know the source of the radio transmission, backing off a previous claim that it came from one of the boats.

The Times said Friday the voice in the audio sounded different from the one belonging to an Iranian officer shown speaking to the cruiser Port Royal over a radio from a small boat in the video released by Iranian authorities.

That is why several Navy experts interviewed by The Times are raising the possibility that a heckler known in the region as the "Filipino Monkey," or an imitator, could be behind the threats.

"Filipino Monkey," who is likely more than one person, listens in on ship-to-ship radio traffic and then jumps on the net shouting insults and vile epithets, the report said.

US Navy women who are overheard on the radio are said to suffer particularly degrading treatment, the paper said.

[Hissyspit]

1. Well, gosh darn it! Does that mean we don't get to have our war now?

:sarcasm:

[liberal N proud]

2. Heckler?

:wtf:

Is that the best they can do to cover their obvious lie?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. I guess they'll have to invent something else to start the war then?

This didn't pass muster, huh?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. Every time Chimpenfuhrer opens his yap, the military is stepping in to shut him up!

Bwaahhahahah

F U Georgie!

[Bluerthanblue]

5. it amazes me

how often the US military talking heads, make me feel like a frickin genius.

What are they thinking???

[TomInTib]

6. And away we go! Tonkin redux.

Bullshit fucking Pentagon.

Bullshit fucking Navy.

They knew it all along. Count on it.

[Richard D]

7. Next it'll be . . .

. . . inter-dimensional communication from the gray aliens.

[walldude]

8. A Heckler? Quick, call Michael Richards!

:evilgrin:

[patrice]

9. So . . . We don't get to show them the Gates of Hell now? Darn!!! nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Oh.

Never mind.