Iran seizes U.K. troops=The 15 sailors are back home

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#261 Postby Lindaloo » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:25 pm

kevin wrote:Me too. I'll bet you that the British keep their forces closer to their dingies in the future, and I'll bet you the Republican Guard don't make it ten meters over the border again. The Iranians made a mistake trying to confront the Royal Navy, and they have lost face.


I agree with you on that!
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#262 Postby Stephanie » Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:21 pm

kevin wrote:Me too. I'll bet you that the British keep their forces closer to their dingies in the future, and I'll bet you the Republican Guard don't make it ten meters over the border again. The Iranians made a mistake trying to confront the Royal Navy, and they have lost face.


I agree as well. I'm so glad it is over and I'm not surprised that Iran used them for their own propaganda, but what do you expect? I'm glad that diplomacy worked.
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#263 Postby Nimbus » Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:05 am

This evening, it emerged that the group’s most senior officer, Marine Captain Chris Air, had told Sky News a week before the abduction that the personnel were gathering intelligence on “Iranian activities”. In the footage, which the broadcaster did not screen, he said they encouraged the crews they intercepted to share “information”.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... &offset=12

After reading this report I began wondering if the Iranian intelligence agency has secret access to media agencies? Sky news pulled their story once the british were captured but was the Sky News story what targeted Chris Air and crew in the first place?
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#264 Postby James » Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:00 pm

Seems some of the concerns we were having at the time have been confirmed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6533069.stm
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#265 Postby pojo » Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:46 pm

I'm glad they are home.
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#266 Postby Cryomaniac » Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:27 pm

If what these people are saying is true (And I believe it, for now at least.) then we have just as much reason to be at war with Iran now as we did the instant they were captured. TORTURE IS ILLEGAL FFS! I don't give a dead monkey about where they were, either the Iranian generals should be tried for war crimes and hanged, or we should bomb the living excrement out of the Iranian military.
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#267 Postby Yarrah » Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:54 pm

^^ But would that do any good right now? The 15 soldiers are safely home now and the crisis is resolved. It would only cause unnecessary deaths.
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#268 Postby Cryomaniac » Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:18 pm

Yarrah wrote:^^ But would that do any good right now? The 15 soldiers are safely home now and the crisis is resolved. It would only cause unnecessary deaths.


The Iranians should have thought of that in the first place.
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#269 Postby abajan » Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:53 pm

Cryomaniac wrote:
Yarrah wrote:^^ But would that do any good right now? The 15 soldiers are safely home now and the crisis is resolved. It would only cause unnecessary deaths.


The Iranians should have thought of that in the first place.

I'm inclined to agree with Yarrah on this one.

From what I understand, the structure of Iran's government is rather complicated and the grabbing of these hostages may have been a ploy on the part of one branch of that government to "stir things up", so to speak.

Thankfully, Britian chose diplomacy and didn't take the easier route because no one could realistically be expected to predict, with any significant level of accuracy, the eventual outcome of yet another conflict an already very unstable region of the world.

Diplomacy was the better option. Any Joe can start a war - few know how to end them (except perhaps to drop a couple of atom bombs. But my God, what an awful price!)
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