Freed Britons arrive at Tehran airport - Update - British navy crew leaves Iran

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[NormsRevenge]

TEHRAN, Iran - Fifteen British sailors and marines released by Iran arrived at Tehran's airport early Thursday and were expected to board a commercial flight to London, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene.

The 15, whose release from nearly two weeks in Iranian captivity was announced Wednesday by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, arrived in a convoy of sedans that drove directly to the presidential VIP section of the airport, the reporter said.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

“or bribes or appeasement or trades”

Don’t count on it.

[Kirkwood]

I meant boat.

[Kirkwood]

So what have the British learned here? If they have rules to not resist and engage anyone forcibly taking a boat or for that matter a ship, then what is going to prevent this from happening again? Can I sail up to some British patrol boat and declare the crew hostages and seize it? Exactly who will stop me from doing that?

[claudiustg]

“The Final Humiliation of Britain” by Ahmadinejad.

This is how the Romans must have looked, as the Goths were deposing Emporer Romulus Augustulus.

[sageb1]

http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=51853

U.S. Helped Free Iranian Diplomat

[nutmeg]

Posted by FairOpinion, 04/05/2007 1:38:56 AM EDT:

UPDATE; They left Tehran, the plane took off.

Britons leave for London, ending Iran standoff

TEHRAN - The 15 British military personnel who had been held by Iran left Tehran on a flight to London on Thursday, ending a two-week standoff that raised international tension and rattled financial markets. Iranian officials whisked the 15 through the airport building to the British Mediterranean Airways plane, keeping them away from journalists, witnesses said.

"The plane has taken off," Iran Radio said.

A British diplomat, asking not to be named, said the Britons would travel in the business class section and that no one apart from the 15 and people accompanying them would be allowed in that part of the plane.

[nutmeg]

Thank you for that update in #58, FairOpinion. Prayers that the 15 British military personnel make it safely home...

[gpapa]

Rubber boats actually. Wonder what happened to the sailors and marines uniforms. The Irananians sure did not wish them to be filmed in uniforms for obvious propaganda reason.

[Vanders9]

Possibly. Its difficult to know what has gone on behind the scenes.

[Vanders9]

I went to Iran and all I got was this cheap lousy suit!

[Vanders9]

Two rigid raiders - and their guns.

[endthematrix]

Who are they waving to...their captors? I hope not.

[kopite]

“”England is an embarrassment. “”

Fine, then you won’t mind if we pack up and leave you alone with the mess in Iraq and Afghanistan then?

If it wasn’t for the English, you’d be speaking French or Spanish and would be living in a third world country.

Tosser.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

Their waving in that picture looks like an “Old Navy” commercial. Waiting for Morgan Fairchild to come prancing through with her new summer look.

[js1138]

They’ve gotten back their Marines without bloodshed or bribes or appeasement or trades (so far as I know).

Since the only purpose of the capture was public humiliation, it's difficult to understand how a secret deal gains anything for Iran.

[sure_fine]

PORTSTEWART, NORTHEREN IRELAND - Everywhere one looks in Europe there are signs that free people are prepared to surrender without a fight to those who would place them in bondage.

In England, a new government-backed study has found that British schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons. Teachers are afraid to teach about the Nazi atrocity because Muslim students might take offense.

The study also discovered resistance by teachers to cover the 11th-century Crusades, when Christians fought Muslims for control of Jerusalem, because the lessons contradict what Muslim students are taught in mosques. The sacrifice of truth in favor of propaganda for fear of violence is the first step on the road to enslavement.

It gets worse.,,

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1812315/posts

[Vanders9]

Its being reported here in the UK that Ahmenutjob shook hands with the fifteen at the press release/propoganda job. Not true. He pointedly did NOT shake hands with the female rating. Arab culture, dontcha just LOVE it!

[monkapotamus]

"Their waving in that picture looks like an “Old Navy” commercial. Waiting for Morgan Fairchild to come prancing through with her new summer look."

[Vanders9]

Look...theres fifteen of them in two rubber boats against six Boghammar patrol boats, all of which are as fast as they are. Only the marines (half of them)are armed, and then only with small arms - and Iranian patrol boats are armored.

[Peach]

Thank goodness! This is just what I wanted to read early this morning.