major ping
i'll tell you what, Imanutjob has some big brass ones too try and pull a stunt like this on the SAME day he his flying over to the US to address the UN.
There has got to be a LOT of tension over in the Arabian Gulf right now with our 2 carrier task groups, Iranian naval war games, and now this kidnapping. I've got to believe our sailors over there are on hair trigger alert
"There has got to be a LOT of tension over in the Arabian Gulf right now with"
The only tension rests in the bowels of the US Senate and Congress liberals in this event circumventing their ability to defund the war effort if it escalates. Lots of bowels sounds eminating from Pelosi, Biden, Kennedy and that crew of morons...
Good point, JHP, hair trigger alert with less than well planned incidents possible.
Here's the poop on the parent ship the soldiers were seized from. (They were seized from small boarding craft, not this vessel itself, which is actually a good thing...for the Iranians.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Cornwall_%28F99%29
This will either devolve rapidly to open warefare, or smolder out, depending mainly on how the UK and the US react to it.
Watching very close this weekend.
Whoa.... I just got in from work... can someone explain to me how Iran snuck up on the British Navy and seized 15 sailors?