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U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« on: January 07, 2008, 09:49:42 AM »
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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, during the weekend, Pentagon officials said on Monday.

The captain of one of the U.S. ships was in the process of giving an order to fire but the order was not implemented as the Iranian boats then moved away, one official said.

The official said the five Iranian speedboats "pretty much swarmed" the three U.S. vessels in international waters with the Iranians threatening that one of the U.S. ships would blow up in minutes.

U.S. officials, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, were confirming a report first aired by CNN.

Oil prices got a brief boost from the news about the confrontation as dealers weighed the threat to oil shipments along the key shipping route. Crude futures jumped 49 cents to $98.40 a barrel before slipping back into negative territory.

The incident took place about 4 a.m. GMT on Sunday, or late Saturday night in Washington, the officials said.

According to the officials, the radio transmission from one of the Iranian ships said: "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes."

The officials said it was not unusual for Iranian boats to get close to U.S. ships in the strait but the radio transmission was unusual.

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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2008, 09:51:10 AM »
I'm kinda wishing our boys had been just a bit quicker on the trigger.  I think Iran would sit back and reflect a bit if we started showing our fangs a bit more directly to them.
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2008, 09:58:22 AM »
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"I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes."
are they sure that wasn't some really bad porn being broadcast??  :-)
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2008, 10:44:34 AM »
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"I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes."
are they sure that wasn't some really bad porn being broadcast??  :-)

ohhhh thats bad LMAO  :rotf:
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2008, 11:46:21 AM »
They seem to have forgotten what happened in 1987.

I hated going through there..............everytime we were challenged by thr Iranians. DJ, that's probably the reason that they didn't act fast on the triggers, we are in their waters and also it has been happening for years.

Though now that they made that transmission about blowing up (or bad porn) I feel sure that the Navy will be closer on the triggers
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2008, 12:14:37 PM »
Should have blown their asses out of the water. What are they going to do? The U.S.S. Cole should be a reminder to people. You approach a US Naval ship with hostile intentions, your ass will be DRT.
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2008, 12:16:42 PM »
Yeah, what Rebel said. You don't screw with America. I just wish we backed that up a little more often.
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2008, 12:18:18 PM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on January 07, 2008, 12:16:42 PM
Yeah, what Rebel said. You don't screw with America. I just wish we backed that up a little more often.
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2008, 09:37:27 PM »

that's okay.  there will be an act II.  for some reason, to the middle eastern terrorist mind, when they should be thinking. "holy shit, we were ****ing lucking to get away with that", they usually think instead, "The infidels tremble at out approach!!  The sea will run red with their blood!!  Let us return and attack again next week!!".

in other words, paradise is about to need a shitload more virgins.

 
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2008, 09:47:20 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on January 07, 2008, 09:37:27 PM

that's okay.  there will be an act II.  for some reason, to the middle eastern terrorist mind, when they should be thinking. "holy shit, we were ****ing lucking to get away with that", they usually think instead, "The infidels tremble at out approach!!  The sea will run red with their blood!!  Let us return and attack again next week!!".

in other words, paradise is about to need a shitload more virgins.

 
Ok, just empty out all the basements in DUmmie-land.   :-)
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #10 on: January 07, 2008, 09:48:35 PM »
Quote from: lug-nut on January 07, 2008, 09:47:20 PM
Quote from: Wretched Excess on January 07, 2008, 09:37:27 PM

that's okay.  there will be an act II.  for some reason, to the middle eastern terrorist mind, when they should be thinking. "holy shit, we were ****ing lucking to get away with that", they usually think instead, "The infidels tremble at out approach!!  The sea will run red with their blood!!  Let us return and attack again next week!!".

in other words, paradise is about to need a shitload more virgins.

 
Ok, just empty out all the basements in DUmmie-land.   :-)

wouldn't that cause a morale crisis in paradise. :evillaugh:
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #11 on: January 07, 2008, 09:49:43 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on January 07, 2008, 09:48:35 PM
Quote from: lug-nut on January 07, 2008, 09:47:20 PM
Quote from: Wretched Excess on January 07, 2008, 09:37:27 PM

that's okay.  there will be an act II.  for some reason, to the middle eastern terrorist mind, when they should be thinking. "holy shit, we were ****ing lucking to get away with that", they usually think instead, "The infidels tremble at out approach!!  The sea will run red with their blood!!  Let us return and attack again next week!!".

in other words, paradise is about to need a shitload more virgins.

 
Ok, just empty out all the basements in DUmmie-land.   :-)

wouldn't that cause a morale crisis in paradise. :evillaugh:

Two-fer!!!!!
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #12 on: January 07, 2008, 09:58:19 PM »
Quite a few years ago I remember a cartoon (I think it was "The Far Side").  It showed two vultures sitting on a branch and one says to the other "I'm tired of waiting, I want to kill something".  Bout time we bloodied some noses.  We still owe those little ****s for the embassy hostage thing that Carter screwed up  ::)
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2008, 09:58:51 PM »
Quote from: lug-nut on January 07, 2008, 09:49:43 PM
Quote from: Wretched Excess on January 07, 2008, 09:48:35 PM
Quote from: lug-nut on January 07, 2008, 09:47:20 PM
Quote from: Wretched Excess on January 07, 2008, 09:37:27 PM

that's okay.  there will be an act II.  for some reason, to the middle eastern terrorist mind, when they should be thinking. "holy shit, we were ****ing lucking to get away with that", they usually think instead, "The infidels tremble at out approach!!  The sea will run red with their blood!!  Let us return and attack again next week!!".

in other words, paradise is about to need a shitload more virgins.

 
Ok, just empty out all the basements in DUmmie-land.   :-)

wouldn't that cause a morale crisis in paradise. :evillaugh:

Two-fer!!!!!

I don't think I would even do that to the terrorists.
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #14 on: January 07, 2008, 10:58:44 PM »
Quote from: lug-nut on January 07, 2008, 12:18:18 PM
Quote from: DixieBelle on January 07, 2008, 12:16:42 PM
Yeah, what Rebel said. You don't screw with America. I just wish we backed that up a little more often.
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #15 on: January 08, 2008, 06:34:30 AM »
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Cosgriff said two Iranian boats also dropped floating white boxes into the water. He offered no explanation for that move but said the U.S. ships passed the boxes safely.

Passed the boxes safely (doesn't specify that they boxes were destroyed ) ?

Test run for a improvised mine possibly ?
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #16 on: January 08, 2008, 08:40:12 AM »
The Iranians have very short memories. They got their butts handed to them the last time they tried this crap back in the 80's.

They even sacrificed one of their own commercial airliners trying to get us into all out war and we didn't take the bait.

IMHO they need to be taught more lasting lesson.
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #17 on: January 08, 2008, 10:17:20 AM »
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The Iranians have very short memories. They got their butts handed to them the last time they tried this crap back in the 80's.

They even sacrificed one of their own commercial airliners trying to get us into all out war and we didn't take the bait.

IMHO they need to be taught more lasting lesson.


The Sarge, I watched that shit on the news back in 88(?). It was pretty clear that many of those corpses were taken from a local morgue because many of them just had diapers or underwear on. I always believed that airliner was a set-up.
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #18 on: January 08, 2008, 10:29:21 AM »
You and me both.  And consideing the flight pattern the airliner came in on...the Vincennes had every reason to believe the incoming was a fighter on an attack run.

Like I said the Iranians were trying to goad us into a fight.  We'd already been attacked and had a battle with their gun boats by the time the Airliner got shot down.

They are trying to provoke us again.

Perhaps it's time to remind them of what a DD or CG is capable of doing. :D
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #19 on: January 09, 2008, 09:09:15 AM »
These guys make Pravda look like rank amateurs when it comes to propaganda:

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TEHRAN, Iran  —  Iran accused the United States on Wednesday of fabricating video and audio released by the Pentagon showing Iranian boats confronting U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf.

The video from Sunday's incident shows small Iranian boats swarming around U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz. In the recording, a man speaking in heavily accented English threatened, "I am coming to you. ... You will explode after ... minutes."

"The footage released by the U.S. Navy was compiled using file pictures and the audio has been fabricated," an official in Iran's Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying by the state-run English-language channel Press TV.



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,321227,00.html
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #20 on: January 09, 2008, 05:46:49 PM »
Quote from: Thor on January 08, 2008, 10:17:20 AM
Quote from: TheSarge on January 08, 2008, 08:40:12 AM
The Iranians have very short memories. They got their butts handed to them the last time they tried this crap back in the 80's.

They even sacrificed one of their own commercial airliners trying to get us into all out war and we didn't take the bait.

IMHO they need to be taught more lasting lesson.


The Sarge, I watched that shit on the news back in 88(?). It was pretty clear that many of those corpses were taken from a local morgue because many of them just had diapers or underwear on. I always believed that airliner was a set-up.


Dude if my plane was going down in a ball of fire I'd need diapers too.
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- President Bush warned Iran of "serious consequences" if it meddles again with U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf, opening a Mideast peacemaking mission Wednesday on an ominous note. He told Israel to dismantle unauthorized settlement outposts and demanded that the Palestinians halt rocket attacks from areas controlled by Hamas Islamic militants.

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Lets hope by "serious consequences" he means "You WILL be fired upon".


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« Reply #22 on: January 09, 2008, 08:32:33 PM »
I guess the Iranians don't realize what that Mk 45 5" gun will do to their little power boats.
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Re: U.S. officials say Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz
« Reply #23 on: January 09, 2008, 09:01:25 PM »
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I guess the Iranians don't realize what that Mk 45 5" gun will do to their little power boats.

Or a couple of surface to surface missiles, or the Carrier Air Wing
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Or a couple of surface to surface missiles, or the Carrier Air Wing

You mean those really really long range ones with the multiple warheads ?

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