Iran Reportedly Charges 3 Detained American Hikers With Espionage

Fox News ^ | November 09, 2009 | Fox News

[Col Frank Slade]

Maybe they were on a Kurdish skull hunt.

[FourPeas]

They guys picked a very bad time to get caught in Iran. With the on-going protests over the last presidential election, the government will use anything they can get to focus attention on something else.

So, what will Pres Obama give, promise, and/or apologize for this time?

[stuartcr]

Flintstone mobiles and brontosaurus cranes??

[FourPeas]

LOL! You’re kidding....right?

[demshateGod]

These were bored rich kids and it really is scenic up there. They’ve already been to every place you’d choose to go.

Iran will set them free “out of good will.” Or they will hang them and we’ll do nothing.

[clintonh8r]

They’ll plead to the lesser charge of “arrogant stupidity of the entitled class.”

[pepperdog]

If these people were actually hikers I have no sympathty, however; if they are actually spies I am sorry they got caught.

[Artemis Webb]

I have zero sympathy for these three. If they are going to be so totally ignorant of geopolitics they should stay home and play with their daddy’s money on the local party circuit.

[Artemis Webb]

"Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, have been detained in Iran since July 31. Their families say they entered the Islamic Republic accidentally while hiking in a scenic area of northern Iraq."

Another thing, I guarantee they had GPS units. The idea that they didn't know where they were is far fetched to the point of being laughable.

[Bronzy]

Those who believe in hope and change.

[popdonnelly]

Probably trying to make contact with like-minded anti-Americans.

When I was in college, we had one professor whose expertise was Marxist philosophy. He took a sabbatical to then-communist Poland. Apparently, he expressed himself heretically, because he wound up being arrested and jailed. I thought the irony was quite funny.

[angcat]

What kind of idiot hikes in that part of the world.

They sound like assholes to me. Idiot is too polite for them.

[blam]

I heard on the radio Saturday that Iran was an economic power the equal of the state of Alabama.(There are more people in Houston, Texas than the whole state of Alabama)

Why do we take any crap from these Islamic idiots?

[DollyCali]

YOU KNOW...IMH they are either guilty as hell(of something ) or stupid as hell.

There is a huge beautiful world out there. One does NOT need to be hiking in Iran, N. Korea, Pook-s-staon, Venezuala or other places where they really dont like we Americans.

[SkyPilot]

But will they be given free healthcare?

_{P.S. Will someone get grandma a new bra?}

[ConservativeMind]

These are all liberals.

I wouldn’t doubt that they see no problems with trying to compromise the US through hostage negotiations. Paging Jess Jackson!

What appears to be stupid is their key to fame and a chance to get the US to compromise on stated positions.

I say let the rot in Iran.

[SkyPilot]

What kind of idiot hikes in that part of the world.

Ahem! They are Morons. Idiots are retarded.

[demshateGod]

It’s not like they were hiking is Diyala. They were hiking in Kurdistan. Okay, so you wouldn’t do it, but you’re not a bored rich kid. I wouldn’t do it either but I can see the draw. All their friends go to the Alps and Nepal but how impressed their friends would be when they get back from Iraq!

[stuartcr]

Not at all.

[SkyPilot]

These three are left-winged lunatics from Berkeley. They have no love loss for America.

I was thinking of going on a camping trip to North Korea this spring.......