And that SURE SEEMED to be the IMPLICATION YESTERDAY by the AmeriKan MSM!
"Japanese supertanker damage raises alarm in Persian Gulf; Shipping line cites blast, says it may have been attack" by Adam Schreck, Associated Press | July 29, 2010
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Japanese shipping line raised the possibility yesterday that one of its supertankers was damaged by an explosion in a possible attack in the Persian Gulf, but authorities on both sides of the tense waterway said they had no evidence that a strike occurred.
Here we go again!!!
Details of what happened as the hulking M. Star tanker steered its way through the strategically sensitive Strait of Hormuz remain murky....
Yeah, that is what propaganda is supposed to look like.
Local officials focused on natural causes, such as an unusually strong wave that slammed into the side of the ship.
A photo released by the Emirates state news agency WAM after the tanker arrived in Fujairah port for inspections showed a large, square-shaped dent....
Not a HOLE?
Mitsui said the damage seemed to be caused by “an attack from external sources’’ while the tanker passed through Omani waters in the western part of the vital waterway, a narrow chokepoint between Oman and Iran at the gulf’s mouth.
I LOVE GOOD BULLS***, don't you?
“We believe it’s highly likely an attack,’’ said Eiko Mizuno, Mitsui spokeswoman. “There is nothing that can explode in that part of the vessel.’’
One of the ship’s 31 crew members noticed a flash of light right before the damage occurred, she said, suggesting something may have struck the vessel....
Then why would she see a flash of light?
Anybody remember the Maine?
If the tanker was attacked, it would be a rare assault on a merchant ship in the gulf or in the Strait of Hormuz, a transit point for about 40 percent of oil shipped by tankers worldwide.
Yeah, I love the word IF in my "newspaper."
Al Qaeda has carried out attacks on oil infrastructure on land in nearby Saudi Arabia, a 2002 suicide bombing against a French oil tanker off the coast of Yemen, and the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden.
Yeah, about the Cole.
Also see: The USS Liberty Cover-Up
And "Al-CIA-Duh," huh?
The made-up "Al-CIA-Duh?"
Related:
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
Oh, AmeriKa's MSM KNOWS ALL ABOUT and yet STILL PUSHES the CHARADE, huh?Yuki Shimoda, an official at Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, said the ministry did not immediately suspect an attack, but added that the possibility cannot be ruled out....
Which is GREAT NEWS for the WAR-MAKERS, huh?
The Strait of Hormuz is a vital shipping lane for crude oil, natural gas, and other goods headed out of the Persian Gulf.
It is far from areas where Somali pirates typically prey on slow-moving ships, though smugglers are known to operate in the area between Iran and an enclave of Oman on the other side of the strait.
Now the s*** MSM is trying to draw Somali pirates into this, implying Iran has their own?
Why aren't more people going into the pirate business these days, huh?
Seems like they are everywhere (and yet nowhere) in my MSM!?
Can't you guys think of a better cover-story frame-up than that?
Related: Pirate Patrol: Somali Double Standard
Pirate Patrol: Israel Feeds the Fishes
And we never heard about those missing people again, did we?
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And today?
"Inquiry suggests tanker damaged in collision" by Associated Press | July 30, 2010
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Investigators in the United Arab Emirates are looking into whether a Japanese tanker damaged at the mouth of the Persian Gulf was involved in a collision, backing away from an earlier theory that natural causes were to blame, the top port official where the vessel is moored said yesterday.
But the ship’s owner refused to speculate on the cause of Wednesday’s incident, which it originally had described as an explosion on the tanker, until there is more information. The company initially said it suspected the ship had been attacked as it entered the tense Strait of Hormuz, a possibility that has not been ruled out.
Captain Musa Murad, director general of the port of Fujairah, said that damage to the ship’s hull and interior is being investigated, but that clues point to a crash of some sort.
Some one rig one of those Iranian-looking speedboats?
“There was a collision. . . . What it is, we don’t know. That’s why the investigation is going on,’’ he said. Emirati state media reported the previous day that an unusually large swell caused by a tremor damaged the ship. Officials elsewhere in the region also pointed to large waves or seismic activity in the area.
Was the Loch Ness monster also sighted in the area?
Murad dismissed those theories yesterday, saying they came from erroneous reports by local authorities before the ship had been examined in port.
Don't worry; you get used to them.
A photo released by the Emirates state news agency WAM after the tanker arrived in Fujairah showed a large, square-shaped dent near the waterline on the rear starboard side of the ship’s hull....
So what bumped into it?
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