This story is getting stranger by the minute...
Sean: Any idea what's going on here?
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Rescue mission for cave divers
From correspondents in Cuetzalan Del Progreso, Mexico
26mar04
RESCUE divers headed in to check on five British military cave divers and their civilian guide today even as Mexico was protesting against the divers' presence.
President Vicente Fox announced during a trip to Honduras that his government was sending "a protest and a demand for clarification from the English government. Why were those people there?"
Two British divers and members of a Mexican army diving team headed into the cave overnight. Officials said they would navigate through 100 metres of flooded tunnels to reach a dry area where the trapped explorers are holed up.
The cave divers' three-day underground tour stretched into a second week after rising water blocked the entrance to the Alpazat caverns they were exploring near Cuetzalan, a mountain town in the central state of Puebla, 180 kilometres north-east of Mexico City.
Stocked with provisions to last until the weekend and equipped with rock-penetrating radios, the explorers had earlier turned down help from Mexican rescuers.
Scores of heavily armed state policemen guarded the cave site overnight, keeping bystanders and most reporters far from the scene.
Local officials and news media said they were offended by the insistence on British rescuers and suspicious at why members of Britain's Combined Services - which encompasses the army, navy and air force - were exploring caves in Mexico.(snipped)
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,9080753%255E1702,00.htmlI've been following this story as well. I think there is something going on here. Wonder if it has anything to do with our discussions a couple of weeks ago about the operative who was supposedly almost across the border near Texas. I also wonder if this has anything to do with the refinery threat.
Remember AQ said that they would be coming from a totally unanticipated location. Just a paranoid thought :)
Well, that is the happiest band of "trapped" people I've ever heard of. Hummmmmmmm. This story is very odd. Wonder what the Brits have found in that cave!
It is most curious Vel. Any updates since yesterday? (I'm still catching up, obviously).