Battleship Fracas In The Persian Gulf

Posted on 01/07/2008 at 9:11 am by Bob Cesca

CNN:

U.S. military reports “significant confrontation” between 5 Iranian vessels and 3 U.S. naval ships in Persian Gulf. Details soon.

CNBC is also reporting this. If it’s accurate, I’m going to be very sceptical about its veracity, i.e. Gulf of Tonkin. This sort of action is suicide for Iran and they have to know this. Why would they harass us?

UPDATE: It looks like no shots were fired. More like some ship-to-ship bird flipping.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Five Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil shipping route off the Iranian coast, over the weekend, CNN reported on Monday.

Citing unidentified U.S. officials, CNN said the Iranian vessels came within 200 yards (meters) of the U.S. ships in international waters in the strait on Saturday, and U.S. sailors came close to opening fire.

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  • Nanotyrannus

    We all know the chicken shits that run our country are looking for a fight. The Gulf is tight and we’ve crammed in as many ships as we can(Just two hours ago, two F/18′s from my old air wing crashed in the Gulf). Holy shit it gets worse.From the Navy Times -”3. IA (Individual Augmentee)duty, here to stay.If you haven’t yet had the chance to carry an M16 around a dusty Middle Eastern base, you may get the opportunity to pound the ground as an individual augmentee with the Army or Marine Corps in 2008.”Translation: We don’t have enough fucking troops so we’re arming SAILORS.I’m off topic. These two chicken chimps never served a day in their lives past Boy Scouts, yet they have no problem starting a few wars for everyone else to die in.