{"id":329553,"date":"2026-08-01T05:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329553"},"modified":"2026-08-02T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:00:18","slug":"was-the-drone-attack-on-us-lng-tanker-in-egypt-a-false-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329553","title":{"rendered":"Was the Drone Attack on US LNG Tanker in Egypt a False Flag?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Larry C. Johnson \u2013 SONAR21 July 31, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Short answer\u2026 I think so.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday July 29, 2026, at roughly 3:20 pm CET, a drone struck the\u00a0Energos Winter<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 a Marshall Islands-flagged floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU)\u00a0owned by US company New Fortress Energy<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 on its starboard side at Egypt\u2019s Mediterranean port of\u00a0Damietta<\/strong>, in the northern Nile Delta. The fire spread to a nearby Bermuda-flagged LNG carrier, the\u00a0Gaslog Salem<\/strong>. Both crews were evacuated, the blaze was brought under control, and no injuries were reported. Both vessels were subsequently moved offshore for assessment; the Energos Winter was pulled off the quayside before the fire was fully out.<\/p>\n

Egyptian harbor responders got on scene fast from both the land side and with fire and rescue tugs, which several accounts credit with preventing a much larger disaster \u2014 a fire spreading to the terminal infrastructure or fully involving either LNG hull would have been catastrophic. Egypt\u2019s Petroleum Minister Karim Badawi traveled to the port personally to oversee the response.<\/p>\n

CNBC and CNN framed this attack as part of a widening campaign on energy infrastructure, implicityly blaming Iran: Iran, the Houthis, and Iraqi militias have all broadened strikes, with Iraqi Iran-aligned militias launching drones at oil infrastructure in Riyadh and Saudi Arabia\u2019s Eastern Province this same week. The Damietta strike was viewed by many in the West as extending that campaign from Gulf oil into Mediterranean gas.<\/p>\n

I think the attack at Damietta was an Israeli false flag that was intended to stir tensions between Cairo and Tehran. Iran inadvertently set the stage for such a narrative. Two days prior to the drone attack Iranian state TV ran a segment headlined about revenge\u00a0against Ukraine<\/em>, showing a multi-target map of European-energy-linked infrastructure, which included Damietta, marked with a pin, citing its LNG capacity (5.2M tons\/yr) as a \u201cgateway for gas exports to Europe\u201d descriptor. Damietta was not the focus of the broadcast and was merely identified as one of several possible targets. Everything beyond that \u2014 i.e., that the map amounts to Iran claiming or committing the strike at Damietta \u2014 is inference layered on top. The critical point about the framing: the stated enemy was\u00a0Ukraine, not the US or Egypt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many in the West were quick to point the finger of blame at Iran. Yet Egypt\u2019s Minister of Information, in an interview with Al Arabiya, denied the Wall Street Journal\u2019s claim that the Egyptian government considered Iran responsible for the drone attack on two ships in Damietta port.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Aragchi issued a statement insisting that it wasn\u2019t Iran and that it was an Israeli false flag operation to try to drag Egypt into an anti Iranian coalition. I think Aragchi is correct.<\/p>\n

Give credit to Mossad for monitoring Iranian media and taking advantage of the news broadcast to quickly create an incident that would cast the shadow of blame on Iran by virtue of the news broadcast that had listed Damietta as one of many possible targets for retaliation against Ukraine. It is very easy for an organization like Mossad to mount such a drone attack in two days\u2026 Guilt by association.<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n

Garland Nixon and I spent some time discussing the question: Is the Pentagon covering up the true extent of US casualties:<\/p>\n