Iran plans to send ships close to US waters: report

[AnchorClanker]

Yeah, I don't see any real outcome of this outside of some very frustrated Persians trying to get some rum and Venezuelan nookie on the sly.

[FunkMonk]

Better yet, we should just fail to notice.

This.

[DGuller]

I hope they have an admiral with really good maneuver rating, or attrition is going to be a bitch.

[Zoupa]

I hope they have an admiral with really good maneuver rating, or attrition is going to be a bitch.

They're still on patch 1.02 and pulled a Zeng He while we weren't watching.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I think we should not notice.  Reacting just makes them happy.

[AnchorClanker]

I think we should not notice.  Reacting just makes them happy.

Yep, pretty much.  No official comment, but plenty of watching and listening.   

[CountDeMoney]

By all means, do it by the end of hurricane season.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I think we should not notice.  Reacting just makes them happy.

Yep, pretty much.  No official comment, but plenty of watching and listening.  

Yes.  Test their ASW capabilities by shadowing them with a fast attack sub.  But really, they live for this shit.  Chavez will offer them basing rights, they'll have a few press conferences that would be ignored but for the outpouring of outrage from Fox News and the rest of the Main Stream Media.

[Siege]

Dude, seriously?

I'll bring my fucking bass boat out there with my deer rifle, and cap the lot of them backwoods fishers.

The royal navy surrendered to iranian fishing boats not too long ago.

[Siege]

Wow, the iranians have a Kilo sub?

Those things still around?

[Darth Wagtaros]

Wow, the iranians have a Kilo sub?

Those things still around?

Yes. Many.

[alfred russel]

Maybe we should just send US ships close to Iranian waters. 

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Offer them asylum, take the ship and send it back to the Gulf under US flag.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Just ignore them, it is just attention-whoring; their officers will probably be wearing tuxedos and bring small dogs with diamante-encrusted collars with them.............anything to get attention from the Great Satan 

[CountDeMoney]

Even funnier, because it's not an article from The Onion--

Al Qaeda to Iran: Stop Spreading 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
ABCNews
By LEE FERRAN
Sept. 27, 2011

The terror group al Qaeda has found itself curiously in agreement with the "Great Satan" -- which it calls the U.S. -- in issuing a stern message to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: stop spreading 9/11 conspiracy theories.

In the latest issue of the al Qaeda English-language magazine "Inspire", an author appears to take offense to the "ridiculous" theory repeatedly spread by Ahmadinejad that the 9/11 terror attacks were actually carried out by the U.S. government in order to provide a pretext to invade the Middle East.

"The Iranian government has professed on the tongue of its president Ahmadinejad that it does not believe that al Qaeda was behind 9/11 but rather, the U.S. government," an article reads. "So we may ask the question: why would Iran ascribe to such a ridiculous belief that stands in the face of all logic and evidence?"

Though Iran was the first of the two to use the "Great Satan" as a synonym for the U.S., the author claims that Iran sees itself as a rival for al Qaeda when it comes to anti-Americanism and was jealous of the 9/11 attacks.

"For them, al Qaeda was a competitor for the hearts and minds of the disenfranchised Muslims around the world," the article says. "Al Qaeda... succeeded in what Iran couldn't. Therefore it was necessary for the Iranians to discredit 9/11 and what better way to do so? Conspiracy theories."

Iran continues to spread the conspiracy theory, al Qaeda says, because doing otherwise would expose their "lip-service jihad" against the U.S.

The magazine also includes a short article allegedly written by al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden before his death at the hands of U.S. Navy SEALs in early May in which bin Laden advises his fighters not to let American soldiers "become great in your eyes."

Apparently looking to bolster their ranks of the "Inspire" news desk, al Qaeda included at the end of the magazine a solicitation for contributors to the magazine "with any skills – be it writing, research, editing, or advice."

Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 9/11

Ahmadinejad has repeatedly claimed that the U.S. was behind the 9/11 terror attacks, recently during the somber observance of the tenth anniversary of those attacks and then again in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly last week. That speech triggered a walk-out by the U.S. and several other delegations.

"Mr. Ahmadinejad had a chance to address his own people's aspirations for freedom and dignity, but instead he again turned to abhorrent anti-Semitic slurs and despicable conspiracy theories," Mark Kornblau, the spokesman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, said at the time.