Do whatever it takes ( pay ransom?) to get the sailors out
and
then NUKE THAT FREAKING PLACE TO HELL !!!!!!!!!


SBV
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On Mar 29, 9:37 am, "Scotty" w@u wrote:
Nuke em all!

I rather see their leader Amadajahitler arrested when he
visits NYC
soon.
He was a member of the revolutionary guards that took the
recent
hostages BTW.

How Britons were conned by Iranian gunboat trick

The speed and cunning shown by the Revolutionary Guards
suggests that
their action was premeditatedDominic Kennedy
The British sailors and marines being held by Iran were
ambushed at
their most vulnerable moment, while climbing down the
ladder of a
merchant ship and trying to get into their bobbing
inflatables.

Out of sight of their warship and without any helicopter
cover, their
only link to their commanders was a communications device
beaming
their position by satellite.

That went dead as they were captured. One theory is that
it was thrown
overboard to prevent the Iranians getting hold of the
equipment and
the information it contained.

The Ministry of Defence released the coordinates of the
searched
vessel yesterday to prove that the Iranian Revolutionary
Guards made
an unprovoked and improper attack in Iraqi waters.

The Iranians also blundered in diplomatic talks by giving
the British
their own compass reference for the place where they said
the 14 men
and one woman had been seized. When Britain plotted these
on a map and
pointed out that the spot was in Iraq's maritime area, the
Iranians
came up with a new set of coordinates, putting the seizure
in their
own waters.

The speed and cunning shown by the Revolutionary Guards
has raised
suspicions that their action was premeditated. A senior
military
officer described it as "deliberate".

It took only three minutes for the Iranians, moving at 40
knots, to
move from their legitimate positions monitoring shipping
in their
waters to come alongside the British last Friday morning.

The sailors and marines from HMS Cornwall were in the
Gulf, working
under a United Nations mandate to protect Iraq from
smuggling and
threats to the oil industry, when an Indian-flagged vessel
came under
suspicion.

It was in shallow waters and the Cornwall was unable to go
alongside
without grounding. A boarding party jumped into two ribbed
inflatable
boats, or RIBs, and set out to investigate.

A helicopter hovered to observe the boarding but, after
confirming
that the Indian vessel was peaceful and friendly, returned
to the
ship. The Cornwall stayed in contact with the two launch
boats via a
communications link providing a GPS satellite position.

After the successful boarding of the innocent Indian
vessel, the
Britons began returning to their RIBs. At that moment one
Iranian
patrol vessel came alongside, adopting a friendly posture.
As a second
Iranian vessel arrived, the Revolutionary Guards turned
aggressive.

HMS Cornwalllost communications with the launch boats and
sent up the
helicopter to investigate. The air crew watched as the
small British
inflatables were forced towards Iran. By now, up to four
Iranian
Revolutionary Guard vessels were swarming round the
Britons.

Although the seizure has been widely linked to the taking
of five
Iranians by US forces in Iraq, Iranian diplomats have
ruled this out.
They say that there is no relation between the Britons'
seizure and
any other bilateral, regional or international issue.

From the start, the Iranian Ambassador to London gave
British
diplomats a set of coordinates for the location of the
confrontation.

Margaret Beckett, the Foreign Secretary, told the Iranian
Foreign
Minister that these compass points actually indicated a
spot clearly
in Iraqi waters. She tried to give Iran an exit route by
suggesting
that it might all be a misunderstanding that could be
resolved by an
immediate release of the captives.

On Sunday, the helicopter from HMS Cornwall flew back over
the Indian
vessel, which was still anchored and had drifted only
slightly. A
photograph was taken of an airman holding a GPS device.
The
coordinates on this picture, the MoD insists, prove that
the Britons
were comfortably within Iraqi waters when captured.

On Monday, Iran surprised Britain by coming up with a
"corrected" set
of coordinates. "The two Iranian positions are just under
a nautical
mile apart, 1,800 yards or so," Vice-Admiral Charles
Style, a Deputy
Chief of the Defence Staff, said yesterday.

Mrs Beckett told the Iranian Foreign Minister that she
could not
accept the Iranians' version of events. She told MPs in
the House of
Commons that it was "impossible to believe, given the
seriousness of
the incident, that the Iranians could have made such a
mistake with
the original coordinates, which after all they gave us
over several
days".



Outgunned

- The two Iranian patrol ships that seized the Britons
were equipped
with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns,
enough for a
small sea battle. By contrast, the Britons go lightly
armed on vessels
they search in the Gulf. Each man is issued with a rifle
or a pistol

- The Iranians struck at a vulnerable moment when the
Britons were
climbing down a ladder to jump into their inflatables

- The Royal Navy does train its men in the techniques
needed to fight
at just such a dangerous stage. "They had all the rights
available to
act in self-defence under law," a senior military officer
said. But
they were in an "almost impossible position"

- A similar decision to hold fire was taken by the six
Royal Marines
and two sailors captured by Iran in 2004 in similar
circumstances.
Scott Fallon, a former marine, said they did think about
shooting
their way free but knew it would be hopeless. He told BBC
Radio 4:
"They had antiaircraft guns. We would have stood no
chance"





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On Mar 28, 9:06 pm, "Scotty" w@u wrote:
I can't think of one good reason why she would stay.

loyality, honor, to be an example to others in the
military. Not
accepting special treatment is key to a team.
.
Not that she has a choice, as Katy said in the muzz
eye...she is not
worth anything.

Same thing happened in 1979, they let the women go,
but
held the men
for 444 days.

I just heard the Iranians want the British to admit
they
were in
Iranian waters and this can end soon.
I bet they do....then they can chop off some heads for
trespassing.

Joe

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The hostage takers in Iran are now saying they are
going
to let the
female sailor go free today or tomorrow after they
parade
them on TV.

If she has a choice.

Should she stay, or should she go. ?

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