There is a mounting credibility gap between the Trump Administration’s claims
Iran was behind Thursday’s Gulf of Oman tanker attacks, and the
evidence offered, which up until Monday was a single, grainy
black-and-white video.
Germany and Japan have both rejected the US version of events, saying
they need to be offered more proof to be convinced. It doesn’t seem like
that was something officials were immediately prepared for, but on
Monday, the military offered some new photographs related to the incident.
The images don’t really show a lot, though one image showed damage to
the Kokuka Courageous, with one US Navy official saying it proved that
the intent was never to sink the tankers.
“Generally to get water intrusion you want to blow a hole below the
waterline,” the official said. The holes shown are well above the
waterline, which is actually the source of a lot of doubts of the US
claim that these were limpet mine attacks.
Limpet mines float, and attach to the underside of a ship to explode,
causing holes below the waterline. That all the holes were above that
line, some of them substantially so, suggests these couldn’t have been
limpet mines. The Japanese crew, aboard the Kokuka Courageous, claimed
their ship was hit by a projectile, not a mine.
This could end up being a problem for the new images, as instead of answering questions it may just add to them.
The new photos make their case worse. At least the grainy b/w photos left the possibility open, now we know that nothing is there. Funny, just by saying something is there the MSM is repeating it as if it is true, kind of reminds me of the story ‘The King has no clothes on’.
Mines down the drain.
“…no intent to sink the ship”…”or at least that’s what we agreed upon with our Israeli friends.”
I’m surprised an Iranian passport wasn’t found stuck to the side of the ship where it “accidentally” got misplaced while removing the “mine”. Now that would be “evidence”.
But who’s asking questions? Us? Who is “us”? Not the general public, which can’t make head or tails of limpet mines and waterlines. This propaganda arising from false flag attacks will work fine regardless of any questions. In six months the administration will be routinely referring to “Iran’s attacks on shipping” and everyone will remember some tankers but not the questions.
These new Pentagram photos are hot stuff!
They are almost as credible as Colin Powell’s “Iraqi WMDs” dog-and-pony show at the United Nations in 2003 or, better still, Bibi Netanyahoo’s famous “bomb cartoon” presentation at the UN in 2012.
And who might have the wherewithal to shoot at a tanker, blowing a hole in its side, and be completely (allegedly) undetected. Considering we have everything Iran puts to see under a microscope, it wouldn’t be them or we’d have the proverbial (and actual) ‘smoking gun’ footage to prove it. On the other hand, if you shoot at a ship and simply don’t report it (or are ordered not to report it) it’s pretty easily obscured as to the source. I wonder who that might be?
Remember the USS Maine! OMG we wuz attackeded, we gots to git us sum paybackk!! Hole mah beer, lemme git muh shotgun. ‘MURICA!