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The Navy Times' Andrew Scutro and David Brown say: "The threatening radio transmission heard at the end of a video showing harassing maneuvers by Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz may have come from a locally famous heckler known among ship drivers as the 'Filipino Monkey.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011208C.shtml

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Threats to US ships in Gulf came from “heckler?”

Raw Story

01/13/08

Threatening comments heard at the end of a Pentagon-released audio recording designed to prove harassing maneuvers 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. The 36-minute video aired Friday included footage of Iranian boats following the US ships at some distance. It includes a shot of a dark object floating in the water, but it could not be determined whether this was one of the box-like objects that the Pentagon claims were dumped in the path of a US warship by two speedboats...

http://tinyurl.com/33mk4f


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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