British Sailors Captured: Day 1: "it reminds me of the USS Pueblo, Gary Powers," or Monica Lewinski, Deny Everything, Deny Everything. You still have the dress? wtf. You have Gary Powers in custody? wtf? The USS Pueblo was just patrolling South Korean waters, it is not a spy boat and it was not in North Korean waters! You have the Crypto machine from the boat? wtf?
I don't understand the west's immediate assumption that the Brit's are 100% innocent. They've been caught in Iranian waters before. There seems to be conflicting reports as to their exact location. The UN isn't claiming the Brit's were in Iraqi waters. At this time the Iranians are not using the captives as bargaining chips in a trade for prisoners, removal of sanctions or anything else. They just want the Brits to admit trespassing, something that for reasons we don't yet know the sailors seem to be willing to admit. I'm not saying either side is right. I'd just like more facts. It would not surprise me at all to find out the Brits were indeed trespassing. I don't see what the Iranians would hope to gain by taking them from Iraqi waters. Especially being they don't seem to be trying to get anything out of the situation. The flip side is the Republican Guard does tend to do what they want, with or without governmental approval. That tends to back the leaders into a corner whereby they have to stand by the action of the Republican Guard or admit there are differing factions and the government leadership isn't in complete control. Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > I'm confused with the ease at which the sailors are admitting that > they were in Iranian waters. I could see one, or two giving in, but > surely not all of them. I'm assuming the Iranians wouldn't be > torturing them, but then again I could be wrong. > > Still, it's not a far stretch to think the Brits were in Iranian > waters do some kind of surveillance. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:231800 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
