In case you missed it, the Filipino Monkey may have been responsible for the threats made to U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz on January 6, 2008. These transmissions could have triggered an armed response, a confrontation that could conceivable have spiraled into WWIII.
"...quoted several veteran sailors as speculating the transmission could have come from a radio heckler, widely known among mariners by the ethnically insulting term 'the Filipino Monkey'."Read the full story at ABC News.
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