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I wonder what tactics they used to get the confession. Do they get King James Bibles to read?
FIFTEEN British sailors and marines arrested by IranÂ’s Revolutionary Guards off the coast of Iraq may be charged with spying.
A website run by associates of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, reported last night that the Britons would be put before a court and indicted.
Referring to them as “insurgents”, the site concluded: “If it is proven that they deliberately entered Iranian territory, they will be charged with espionage. If that is proven, they can expect a very serious penalty since according to Iranian law, espionage is one of the most serious offences.”
The warning followed claims by Iranian officials that the British navy personnel had been taken to Tehran, the capital, to explain their “aggressive action” in entering Iranian waters. British officials insist the servicemen were in Iraqi waters when they were held.
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The penalty for espionage in Iran is death. However, similar accusations of spying were made when eight British servicemen were detained in the same area in 2004. They were paraded blindfolded on television but did not appear in court and were freed after three nights in detention.
Iranian student groups called yesterday for the 15 detainees to be held until US forces released five Revolutionary Guards captured in Iraq earlier this year.
Al-Sharq al-Awsat, a Saudi-owned newspaper based in London, quoted an Iranian military source as saying that the aim was to trade the Royal Marines and sailors for these Guards.
The claim was backed by other sources in Tehran. “As soon as the corps’s five members are released, the Britons can go home,” said one source close to the Guards.
He said the tactic had been approved by Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, who warned last week that Tehran would take “illegal actions” if necessary to maintain its right to develop a nuclear programme.
Iran denounced a tightening of sanctions which the United Nations security council was expected to agree last night in protest at TehranÂ’s insistence on enriching uranium that could be used for nuclear weapons.
Lord Triesman, the Foreign Office minister, met the Iranian ambassador in London yesterday to demand that consular staff be allowed access to the Britons, one of whom is a woman. His intervention came as a senior Iranian general alleged that the Britons had confessed under interrogation to “aggression into Iran’s waters”.
Intelligence sources said any advance order for the arrests was likely to have come from Major-General Yahya Rahim Safavi, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards.
Subhi Sadek, the Guards’ weekly newspaper, warned last weekend that the force had “the ability to capture a bunch of blue-eyed blond-haired officers and feed them to our fighting cocks”.
Safavi is known to be furious about the recent defections to the West of three senior Guards officers, including a general, and the effect of UN sanctions on his own finances.
A senior Iraqi officer appeared to back Tehran’s claim that the British had entered Iranian waters. “We were informed by Iraqi fishermen after they had returned from sea that there were British gunboats in an area that is out of Iraqi control,” said Brigadier-General Hakim Jassim, who is in charge of Iraq’s territorial waters. “We don’t know why they were there.”
Admiral Sir Alan West, the former head of the Royal Navy, dismissed suggestions that the British boats might have been in Iranian waters. West, who was first sea lord when the previous arrests took place in June 2004, said satellite tracking systems had shown then that the Iranians were lying and the same was certain to be true now.
one of these days....one of these days!
If they want Nuclear power so bad.......
Why not give it to them? We could have it there inside 2 hours.
http://re3.mm-a5.yimg.com/image/3313693537
If they want Nuclear power so bad.......
Why not give it to them? We could have it there inside 2 hours.
http://re3.mm-a5.yimg.com/image/3313693537
I bet we could have it there alot fast then that... you know there has to be atleast one missle sub in the med.
If they want Nuclear power so bad.......
Why not give it to them? We could have it there inside 2 hours.
http://re3.mm-a5.yimg.com/image/3313693537
Totally insane
Totally insane
Yet effective at the same time.............
I bet we could have it there alot fast then that... you know there has to be atleast one missle sub in the med.
Always ready to deliver payload at a moments notice. Been that way since the 50's. At least that's what I was told once by a Brigadier General and even a Colonel on separate occasions. One of the main reasons The soviets never made a move on us, was because of our ability to refuel B-52's midair around the clock thus making delivery lickety-split.
Totally insane
Yep. That's the idea. Don't worry, it'd only be temporary. When the dust
clears, they'll have a fresh slate to start with.
It now appears the British can prove that thier sailors were in Iraqi waters. This could get interesting. I know many British Veterans and even though thier government is left of center, when things get bad enough, the British can grow a pair in a hurry.
Take from this what you may.....
I looks like lots of dominoes are lined up ready to topple into place... or lots of misinformation tactics. The first article talks about "an incident in the gulf" - the topic of this thread.
I know we have many members in Iraq and Afganistan right now - be safe, BSR
http://www.willthomas.net/Convergenc...ttack_Iran.htm
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/int...d_khallaf.html
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/122371
www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006824873
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