Why would they sabotage their own tankers when Shinzo Abe was visiting to discuss the rumored order of 100 MD-80s? Read about the MD-80 and Boeing 717 and MV-22.
Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo said the the United States government is drawing this conclusion based on “on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation” — but he did not offer any concrete evidence to support the claim.
National Security Adviser John Bolton earlier today also spoke out to put responsibility on Iran, but also did not offer evidence.
Eerily Reminiscent of the Gulf of TonkinThe Gulf of Tonkin incident (Vietnamese: Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ), also known as the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. It involved either one or two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. The original American report blamed North Vietnam for both incidents, but the Pentagon Papers the memoirs of Robert McNamara and NSA publications from 2005 proved material misrepresentation by the US government to justify a war against Vietnam.
One U.S. aircraft was damaged, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats were damaged, and four North Vietnamese sailors were killed, with six more wounded. There were no U.S. casualties.[6] Maddox “was unscathed except for a single bullet hole from a Vietnamese machine gun round.”
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