What Happened in the Strait of Hormuz? #
January 12th, 2008 | In Worth Reading
Slate’s Fred Kaplan gives a very useful illumination of the controversy that surfaced earlier this week about Iranian speedboats approaching and threating US navel vessels maneuvering in the Strait of Hormuz. Both sides have issued very different accounts and videos of the incident, for which Kaplan has a simple (and sensible) explanation:
The likely explanation for the differences is this: The two videos are of two different incidents.