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Iran 'to try Britons for espionage'
Timesonline Via Drudge Report ^ | March 25, 2007 | Uzi Mahnaimi, Michael Smith and David Cracknell

Posted on 03/24/2007 8:51:36 PM PDT by RDTF

FIFTEEN British sailors and marines arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards off the coast of Iraq may be charged with spying.

A website run by associates of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, reported last night that the Britons would be put before a court and indicted.

Referring to them as “insurgents”, the site concluded: “If it is proven that they deliberately entered Iranian territory, they will be charged with espionage. If that is proven, they can expect a very serious penalty since according to Iranian law, espionage is one of the most serious offences.”

The warning followed claims by Iranian officials that the British navy personnel had been taken to Tehran, the capital, to explain their “aggressive action” in entering Iranian waters. British officials insist the servicemen were in Iraqi waters when they were held.

The penalty for espionage in Iran is death. However, similar accusations of spying were made when eight British servicemen were detained in the same area in 2004. They were paraded blindfolded on television but did not appear in court and were freed after three nights in detention.

Iranian student groups called yesterday for the 15 detainees to be held until US forces released five Revolutionary Guards captured in Iraq earlier this year.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; globaljihad; iran; jihad; mahdi; nuclear; nutjob; piracy; stuckonstupid
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1 posted on 03/24/2007 8:51:38 PM PDT by RDTF
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the ? should be ' - pasted incorrectly - thanks


2 posted on 03/24/2007 8:53:18 PM PDT by RDTF (They should have put down Barbarella instead of Barbaro)
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To: RDTF
Iran is itching for a fight.
3 posted on 03/24/2007 8:53:38 PM PDT by Chgogal (Vote Al Qaeda. Vote Democrat.)
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To: RDTF

Iranian mistake #2.


4 posted on 03/24/2007 8:53:40 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: RDTF

Wow.

This is getting serious. The Brits are going to have to respond. If I were them, I would give Iran 36 hours to free their guys, or risk retaliation. If nothing happens, I would put one of those shiny diesel submarines of theirs at the bottom of the ocean. Not an all out invasion or a strike on Tehran or anything, but it will hurt them and it will let them know not to screw aroudn with us.


5 posted on 03/24/2007 8:54:48 PM PDT by letsgonova19087
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To: Cindy; FARS

ping


6 posted on 03/24/2007 8:55:50 PM PDT by RDTF (They should have put down Barbarella instead of Barbaro)
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To: RDTF

Quick, where's the UN? We need to pass some resolutions!


7 posted on 03/24/2007 8:56:10 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
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To: RDTF

And they claim they are no threat to regional peace?


8 posted on 03/24/2007 8:56:16 PM PDT by AZRepublican ("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
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from the iran blogs

*** blog entry copy Iran site ***

Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tehran Posts: 170 Adding one point. Our(Iran) government wants a war just as badly as the Americans do. They just don't want to start it. If war breaks out, Iranians like me and you will fight for our country and forget about the dictating government.

9 posted on 03/24/2007 8:56:53 PM PDT by Flavius (Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellumhttp://www.defense-update.com/images/GOLAN_URBAN.jpg)
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To: letsgonova19087
This is getting serious. The Brits are going to have to respond.

Can you say WWIII?
10 posted on 03/24/2007 8:57:06 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
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To: RDTF

Pray for these men!


11 posted on 03/24/2007 8:57:54 PM PDT by www.saveourguns.org (www.freecitizen.com)
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To: RDTF

Call Pelosi she knows how to solve all the world's problems after stabbing the military in the back first.


12 posted on 03/24/2007 9:00:37 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: RDTF

Thank you for the ping RDTF.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793738/posts?page=1345#1345


13 posted on 03/24/2007 9:01:13 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: RDTF

Call in the Mongols.


14 posted on 03/24/2007 9:03:10 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Cindy

Ah! you were already on it!


15 posted on 03/24/2007 9:04:10 PM PDT by RDTF (They should have put down Barbarella instead of Barbaro)
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To: Man50D

"I therefore fearlessly challenge the verdict which this House, as representing a political, a commercial, a constitutional country, is to give on the question now brought before it; whether the principles on which the foreign policy of Her Majesty's Government has been conducted, and the sense of duty which has led us to think ourselves bound to afford protection to our fellow subjects abroad, are proper and fitting guides for those who are charged with the Government of England; and whether, as the Roman, in days of old, held himself free from indignity, when he could say Civis Romanus sum; so also a British subject, in whatever land he may be, shall feel confident that the watchful eye and the strong arm of England, will protect him against injustice and wrong."


16 posted on 03/24/2007 9:05:34 PM PDT by furquhart (Gingrich for President)
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To: RDTF

Smiling at you...keep the pings up please as I am out cybertraveling on the 'net.


17 posted on 03/24/2007 9:09:10 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: furquhart
and the sense of duty which has led us to think ourselves bound to afford protection to our fellow subjects abroad,

I don't think the Brits will be quoting Neville "We have peace in our time!" Chamberlain any too soon.
18 posted on 03/24/2007 9:09:19 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
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To: Man50D

No doubt this is huge. The biggest surprise thus far has been the restraint and lack of verbal response from England's leaders.
Hopefully their actions speak louder than anything they have done so far, but this reminds me all too much of how that coward Olmert has dealt with kidnapped Israeli's.


19 posted on 03/24/2007 9:09:50 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (STOP - Hildabeast, Shrillary, Hitlery, Billary, Her Thighness, Sen. Cankles, Dukakis-in-Drag)
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To: Man50D
Can you say WWIII?

Oh Please. From the women who run Britain now?

Nothing is going to happen from the British - wouldn't want to upset the Muslim immigrant population now, would we?

The Iranians will stage show trials and amplify it for maximum effect. The British under Blair will wring their hands, cluck like old ladies about how terrible it all is, and do nothing.

Britain is dead, gone, buried. A generation ago they would have dumped a bomb load on these animals. Now they'll meekly submit to whatever crude humiliation is dreamed up.

20 posted on 03/24/2007 9:10:53 PM PDT by Regulator
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