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January 14, 2008
Incident with Iran was almost a horrible accident?
There's a fascinating story in today's Guardian - it looks like the "heckling radio ham known as the Filipino Monkey, who has spent years pestering ships in the Persian Gulf" might have been responsible for the recent incident between the US navy and Iranian boats. As the Guardian makes clear, "The US navy came within seconds of firing at the Iranian speedboats".
Given the possibilities of the networked accident, it's hard to know what impact this type of misunderstanding might have had...
