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  • Iran Shows the Way to Civilised Behaviour
    5 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    15 British Sailors, who had no right to be in Middle East at all, were captured by the Iranians while intruding Iran’s territory. From the first day the Iranians treated them in accordance with laws of War and peace as laid down in the Quran.
    They were treated with respect as guests, provided good accommodation, food, and all the hospitality that the Islamic tradition demands. Contrary to what they might be urged to say by the British Military now that they are freed, there is no doubt (…)

  • How I know Blair faked Iran map
    1 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    How I know Blair faked Iran map
    Craig Murray, Former Ambassador to Uzbekistan and Head of the Foreign Office’s Maritime Section – via The Daily Mail March 31, 2007
    Like most senior Royal Navy officers, Commodore Nick Lambert has great reserves of professional expertise and common sense. The Coalition task force commander was aboard HMS Cornwall when 15 Royal Navy personnel serving on the frigate were seized at gunpoint by Iranian forces on March 23.
    The Navy states the 14 men and one (…)

  • ‘Cruel, Callous, Inhumane and Unacceptable.’
    1 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Saturday, March 31, 2007 by CommonDreams.org by Felicity Arbuthnot
    An Open Letter to the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, M.P.
    Dear Mr Brown,
    Standing in Afghanistan, you called the Iranian holding of fifteen British sailors who it is likely strayed in to Iranian waters: ‘Cruel, callous, inhumane and unacceptable.’ Breathtaking.Compared to the behavior of the UK and US troops, their treatment in Iran is seemingly a health spa.
    ‘Cruel, callous, inhumane and (…)

  • Fake Maritime Boundaries
    31 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Craig Murray, Barry Lando – Wake up from your Slumber.com March 28, 2007
    I have been unpopular before, but the level of threats since I started blogging on the captured marines has got a bit scary.
    It is therefore with some trepidation that I feel obliged to point this out.
    "The British Government has published a map showing the coordinates of the incident, well within an Iran/Iraq maritime border. The mainstream media and even the blogosphere has bought this hook, line and sinker. (…)

  • Is Ulster the last refuge of the free and home of the brave?
    31 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A speeding biker - who sparked outrage after videoing himself riding one-handed at 185mph along the M2 - has now revealed his passion for racing along the winding Antrim Coast road.
    The mysterious biker, who goes by the name Speedyfireblade, has been caught out yet again boasting on an online forum about his racing stunts and how he will be too fast for the police to catch.
    The biker, who is believed to be from the Antrim area, claims to be part of a gang of around eight bikers who like (…)

  • A Pretext For Invasion
    31 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Saturday insisted that 15 British spies it seized had illegally entered Iranian waters, denouncing what it called a "blatant aggression." The Britons were being taken to the capital for questioning, Iranian media reported much in the same the Americans and Brits have been hauling off Iranians who actually live in the region and have strong ties to elements in Iraq.
    “Blimey! The Eye-Rainians ain’t got shit on us. We got fuckin’ strong ties with the Eye-rackies of our (…)

  • Call that humiliation?
    31 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    I share the outrage expressed in the British press over the treatment of our naval personnel accused by Iran of illegally entering their waters. It is a disgrace. We would never dream of treating captives like this - allowing them to smoke cigarettes, for example, even though it has been proven that smoking kills. And as for compelling poor servicewoman Faye Turney to wear a black headscarf, and then allowing the picture to be posted around the world - have the Iranians no concept of (…)

  • Brit “Hostage” Drama Pales in Comparison to MI6 and CIA Crimes Against Iran
    31 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Perhaps we should get some perspective by imagining how we might react if the Iranians had occupied France and were patrolling the English channel,” runs a post on the UK Telegraph, responding to the capture of 15 British sailors by Iran.
    Indeed. But I can think of one better.
    Perhaps we’d get some perspective if we realized MI6 and the CIA plotted against the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953. “If there had not been a military coup, there would not have (…)

  • Iran airs second sailor ’apology’
    30 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A second member of the Royal Navy crew captured in the Gulf has apologised for "trespassing" in Iranian waters, in a broadcast on Iranian television.
    The crewman, who introduces himself as Nathan Thomas Summers, says: "I would like to apologise for entering your waters without permission."
    A third letter allegedly from LS Turney was released on Friday in which she said she had been "sacrificed" to the policies of the UK and US governments.
    It also demanded an end to "oppressive (…)

  • Iran, Turkey discuss British sailors’ illegal crossing
    30 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan late Thursday discussed over phone the recent illegal crossing of British sailors and marines into Iranian waters in the Persian Gulf region.
    Fifteen British sailors and marines, who had entered Iranian territory, were arrested by Iranian coastal guards on Friday, March 23.
    According to the Press Bureau of the presidential office, the telephone conversation was on an initiative by the Turkish premier.
    During (…)