March 29, 2007
The British sailors and marines being held by Iran were ambushed at their most vulnerable moment, while climbing down the ladder of a merchant ship and trying to get into their bobbing inflatables.The Ministry of Defence has released coordinates showing that the Brits were not in Iranian waters, as claimed by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Out of sight of their warship and without any helicopter cover, their only link to their commanders was a communications device beaming their position by satellite.
That went dead as they were captured. One theory is that it was thrown overboard to prevent the Iranians getting hold of the equipment and the information it contained.
A deliberate act sanctioned by Iran's government would indicate that the regime will not release the kidnapped sailors without major concessions, and might welcome a limited war to help stifle domestic unrest. In other words, a measured military response would play into their hands.
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Posted by: Al at March 29, 2007 11:03 AM (0FGKd)
instead we have continued kidnappings, torture, and terror attacks.
wake up, unless you destroy all arabs and muslims we will never be free of terror.
God Bless America
Posted by: Jonathan Marks at March 29, 2007 11:43 AM (Nhfns)
Posted by: crosspatch at March 29, 2007 12:01 PM (y2kMG)
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at March 29, 2007 12:44 PM (8e/V4)
Bluto,
I promise you if the allies knock out the main props of the regime, i.e. the concentrations of IRGC (who incidentally are the same f**kers who kidnapped the Brits) and their auxiliary Basiji by a sustained relentless air campaign, the Iranian people would themselves finish off the f**king terrorist regime. I believe, in such a campaign the personal residences of the commanders/generals of the IRGC must also be targetted.
Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at March 29, 2007 01:42 PM (j97MF)
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at March 29, 2007 01:56 PM (p52Ne)
and they siezed it. This is their way of first claiming that some
international boundary law was broken, then kidnapping some sailors,
then treating them in accordance with the Geneva Conventions (something
they are certainly NOT known for doing). Then they'll issue some
clap-trap statement about how, unlike the US, they are so humane to the enemy while they continue to covertly supply Shiite militias and harbor known terrorists.
Every word that comes out of these people's mouths is a calculated
lie. But you watch. Some liberal a-hole will buy it, hook,
line and sinker, and use the same argument that at least THEY don't
torture their captives.
Meh.
Posted by: Oyster at March 29, 2007 02:04 PM (FFmKq)
Maybe a collection should be taken up for CB radios or a sat phone or, well, something.
Bluto do you think that they had no way of communication with the HMS Cornwall?
Posted by: John Ryan at March 29, 2007 02:05 PM (TcoRJ)
The sort of unremitting air assault that I'm suggesting would considerably exceed the liberal comfort threshold of "measured".
As for Iranian nationalist feelings; they are strong and they are there now; but Iranian nationalism is anti-Islam and therefore necessarily anti-regime.
The Iranian people see this d@mned terrorist regime as an Islamic-Arabic occupation force that treats the lives, the property and the dignity of the Iranian people as war loot to be expended on terrorist Arab savages and their f**king pseudo-religion.
Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at March 29, 2007 03:59 PM (j97MF)
Btw, have you ever read "Whirlwind" by James Clavell, and, if so, what is your take on it?
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at March 29, 2007 10:46 PM (p52Ne)
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