Word: monkeyâ
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...much for careful versus provocative. The menacing audio in the naval incident apparently came not from Iranian boats but from a radio heckler known as the Filipino Monkey???one or more pranksters who have been jabbering over the Persian Gulf maritime channels for decades and who nearly became the first nobodies to start a world war since 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Ferdinand in 1914. Critics said the standoff in the strait illustrated how a single provocateur can exploit global tensions and spark an international crisis. And they weren't thinking of the Filipino Monkey...
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