Oil tanker captain contradicts Pompeo. Well, who ya gonna believe?

[triron]

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/448535-oil-tanker-captain-disputes-part-of-us-account-of-attack

[Sneederbunk]

1. Fake captain!

[asiliveandbreathe]

2. USS Abraham Lincoln

The US had also recently deployed the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the Strait of Hormuz in response to a "number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings" from Iran, a US official with direct knowledge of the situation told CNN at the time.

Just how many destroyers and battleships and subs come along with a strike group...

The Carrier Strike Group (CSG), composed of roughly 7,500 personnel, an aircraft carrier, at least one cruiser, a flotilla of six to 10 destroyers and/or frigates, and a carrier air wing of 65 to 70 aircraft.


A carrier strike group also, on occasion, includes submarines, attached logistics ships and a supply ship. The carrier strike group commander operationally reports to the commander of the numbered fleet, who is operationally responsible for the area of waters in which the carrier strike group is operating.

That's some kind of SMALL, so called Iranian boat, pulling SOMETHING from a tanker...now, just how do you suppose it got through....

[dalton99a]

3. What You're Seeing Is Not What's Happening

[Vinca]

4. I don't trust a word out of Pompeo's mouth. And, if you think about it, why would

the Iranians be removing a mine if they were attacking the ship?

[dalton99a]

5. Exactly.