British troops seized by Iranian Revolutionary Guard
 

Britain’s crisis with Iran deepened last night after Tehran justified seizing 15 British servicemen by claiming that they had strayed into Iranian territorial waters “illegally”.

The announcement appeared to rule out any hope that the incident was a simple mistake that could be quickly rectified.

Instead, there were growing fears that the 15 British sailors and Royal Marines were victims of a deliberate ambush on the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway by Iranian Revolutionary Guards, perhaps seeking to use the captives as hostages in the increasingly tense stand-off between the West and Iran over its nuclear programme.

Link to Times article

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super!

This is the 2nd time thishas happened.
 

This is the 2nd time this has happened.
The last incident happen about a year ago where the Iranians seize some British soldiers training Iraqis to patrol the river that borders Iran....they released the soldiers but kept the patrol craft. The Iranians are using the same excuse as last time, the British aledgedly strayed into Iranian waters. I don't believe the Iranian story. For the British to stray into Iranian waters a 2nd time is just not credible to me...

First the Iranians are being incredibly STUPID!
They are giving the USA/UK causi belli to respond militarily.

Second, the USA and especially the British are even MORE stupid if they don't up the antes on the Iranians with a military response. Bush has an excuse to bomb the Iranians and the Iranians have given him an excuse on a silver platter.... Time to "redeploy" B2 Bombers over Iran...

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The time has come to invade Iran.

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The time has come to invade Iran.

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The US army is too small to invade iran. We could take them over but we don't have enough troops to occupy their country properly.

A better solution is to fire-bomb their oil fields.
*No oil
*No cash to fund terrorism in Iraq and in Lebanon.

We have lots of B2 bombers collecting dust that can make Iran look like a birthday cake. In addition to humbling Iran and crushing their economy it would serve a tertiary purpose to rally the USA around George W. Bush. Do it Georgie! Do it! Don't be a p****. The Repubs can sweep back into office in 2008! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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The time has come to invade Iran.

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The US army is too small to invade iran. We could take them over but we don't have enough troops to occupy their country properly.

A better solution is to fire-bomb their oil fields.
*No oil
*No cash to fund terrorism in Iraq and in Lebanon.

We have lots of B2 bombers collecting dust that can make Iran look like a birthday cake. In addition to humbling Iran and crushing their economy it would serve a tertiary purpose to rally the USA around George W. Bush. Do it Georgie! Do it! Don't be a p****. The Repubs can sweep back into office in 2008! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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I never suggested occupying Iran, just bombing them back to the stone age would suffice [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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A better solution is to fire-bomb their oil fields.
*No oil
*No cash to fund terrorism in Iraq and in Lebanon.



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My sarcasm meter is going off the scale....

If this ever happens I am going to buy the biggest mostest CO2 polluting car I can find and refuse to pay road tax.

Mr Blair - if you care so little about the state of the planet that we live on to cause 1000's of tonnes of pollutants to get released into the atmosphere by firebombing oil fields - then how can you charge me extra monies for driving a large car?

I think Iran is looking for a fight - and the world is infinitely stupid if we give them one - but what do I know.

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this happened in 2004 - they let the troops go - of course, that was before we tried to tell them we can have nukes and they can't or else we'll kill them.

won't give GWB his casus belli I don't think.

rb

bbc news from 2004

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These troops are important enough to cause an international crisis. Britian is much more than America's dearest friend. We have stood side by side for the last century. I was shocked that it was not the lead news story on all the networks and cable TV.

Iran will release them in a few days, hopefully unharmed. The leaders of Iran are dumb enough to think England is a small country they can pick on. I think America will stand behind anything England wants to do. I hope so.

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The leaders of Iran are dumb enough to think England is a small country they can pick on. I think America will stand behind anything England wants to do.

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I don't know how many thousand such incidents there has been previously between different countries. It almost always ends up peacefully. It is more a matter of routine than a crisis.