iran and "hostages" : image and meaning

[luke]

[faceless]

I like it... nice one

[Karl]

i believe Britain and America are trying to provoke a confrontation. The tv news footage shows that a couple of dinghy type boats came and arrested the brits while british helecopters circled overhead and a british destroyer/frigate was visible in the frame. The beggers the obvious statement in my opinion this is all a deliberate sacrifice in order to provoke airstrikes to take place over the easter weekend during primetime tv after corrie.
I hope for gods sake it doesnt happen because Iran wont lie down and take the carpet bombing without striking back.
When are Butcher Bush and his Asslicker Blair going to be taken to the Hague in handcuffs.

[Mandy]

Looks like it is going to be an "Easter" surprise, especially with Blair's "no negotiation" line http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8O5VM7O1&show_article=1

That sounds familiar .. Heard it before .. generally just before an invasion/attack.


Two more articles on the position being in Iranian Waters.

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2007/03/blairs_faked_bo_1.html

"Blair's Faked Border

If one would use a maritime boundary defined by equidistance from the
Iraqi and Iranian coastlines, as is commonly (see Art.7) done in such
cases, the result would be something like this purple line. The merchant
vessels position as given by the British and the British forces
themselves would then have been well in Iranian waters.

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http://barrylando.com/?p=136

A fake British map? More on the Captured Brits

A) The Iran/Iraq maritime boundary shown on the British government map
does not exist. It has been drawn up by the British Government. Only
Iraq and Iran can agree their bilateral boundary, and they never have
done this in the Gulf, only inside the Shatt because there it is the
land border too. This published boundary is a fake with no legal force.

B) Accepting the British coordinates for the position of both HMS
Cornwall and the incident, both were closer to Iranian land than Iraqi
land. Go on, print out the map and measure it. Which underlines the
point that the British produced border is not a reliable one.

[Karl]

'There is something very fishy going on. HMS Cornwall is a state of the art ship with a radar tracking system that would have seen the Iranian boats as they left port. Why did the captain of HMS Cornwall not go to cut off the Iranians?. Why did the gemini boats not fight or at least run away when they saw the six boats coming?. No Royal Navy captain would send its people out without protection! Either the captain is an incompetent fool OR he was ordered to stand by and do nothing!' -- Beryl Hutchinson, Larnaca, Cyprus

[luke]

from craig murray

[Mandy]

Another article which doesn't believe Blair :

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10745
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There is only one country on earth that benefits in any way from a Western collision with the Persians, and its current rulers haven't been shy about openly calling for war. The Israelis have stated, loudly and often, that Iranian possession of nuclear technology represents an "existential threat" to the Jewish state, and they've threatened to take out Iran's nuclear facilities if we fail in our duty to do so. They way things are going, however, it looks like they won't have to …

The Lobby moved quickly to bend Western politicians to its will, including "antiwar" Democrats in the U.S. Congress. Having been given a green light to invade by Speaker Pelosi and her minions, is it any wonder that the War Party is crossing that nonexistent line in the Shatt al Arab – the Rubicon of our imperial ambitions?
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It's amazing that the War Party, after delivering a body blow to our military and American interests throughout the world by invading Iraq, can mobilize its forces to make yet another go of it – this time on a much larger scale.
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