Good news!
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at a news conference in Tehran. Ahmadinejad has earned a reputation for colourful language and bold gestures but never has he created such a shock as with his sudden liberation of the 15 British sailors.(AFP/Atta Kenare)
Faye Turney walks away after meeting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after 15 British naval personnel were released, in Tehran April 4, 2007. (Stringer/Reuters)
It’s not my path, but lets give credit to the British way of successfully handling the situation.
They’ve gotten back their Marines without bloodshed or bribes or appeasement or trades (so far as I know).
Kudos to the UK.
Why not in Breaking News...?
I sure hope that when they get home the Brits bomb the hell out of the iranian navy and say try to do it again.
PS. Fat chance of this happening. :(
These people went through some crap,,look at their eyes..Military type of interogation was going on,,Where,What,Who and How,,.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) looks towards Iran's Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar during a news conference in Tehran April 4, 2007. Ahmadinejad freed 15 British sailors and marines on Wednesday, offering a "gift" to Britain that ended a 13-day crisis which had rattled world financial markets. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN)
I’d love to hear what they say in private once they are out of Ahmadinejad’s control.
They should not have been taken captive.
If they were armed, it should not have happened.
Their Rules of Engagement was to surrender.
This is no way for a Country to operate.
England is an embarrassment. And they requested we embarrass ourselves in order to get their people home.
Once the troops are home, we should destroy Iran.
Anything short of their destruction means they win, we lose.
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.
These idiots should be happy to be home and happy to have done more damage to the US & UK alliance than the islamos could ever have hoped for. Im sorry to the (few) Brits who still have a spine but as a nation I will never respect them again. They really need to get out of the Gulf, go home, and stay the hell out of OUR way. We dont need friends like the Brits anymore.
I rejoice with them and their families.
I look with scorn at ROE and countries that accept them, that facilitated the iranian terrorist act to be committed in the first place
“Freed Britons arrive at Tehran airport”
Who are the Britons?
