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| Sailor 'measured for coffin' |
| 2007-04-10 |
| THE female British sailor captured and held by Iran for 13 days has told how she was stripped to her underpants by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and threatened she might never see her three-year-old daughter again. After the British Defence Ministry relaxed its ban at the weekend on the service personnel striking financial deals with the media, Faye Turney, 26, told The Sun her interrogators taunted her with threats to her life. She told the paper that at one point she feared Iranian workers were "making my coffin" after she heard "the noise of wood sawing and nails being hammered near my cell ... then a woman came into my cell to measure me up from head to toe with a tape". |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 How did the British fall so far so fast? Royal Marines (the “elite”) were taken hostage while under the protection (sic) of a Warship that failed to lend ANY assistance. After said Marines were taken hostage (without firing a shot) they disgraced themselves by giving statements against their country. We find out after their repatriation that the WORST treatment they endured was being strip to their skivvies and being isolated? The absolute worst part is that somehow these 15 are turned into some sort of “Heroes” because they endured some mild discomfort? God save the British, but I would not count on the RMs. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2007-04-10 19:02 |
#5 Melanie Phillips has a good column on this sorry episode, Britain on its Knees, in which she decries the "Diana-fication" of Great Britain."And across the Atlantic, the Americans – whose own conduct over the years towards Iran has hardly been a model of resolve — have had their illusions about Tony Blair, along with their quasi-mythological belief in the British stiff upper lip, naval prowess, military derring-do and all the rest of it, shredded now in the most brutal fashion. The damage that has been done to Britain’s reputation in US circles is incalculable."Faye Turney is just making it worse. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2007-04-10 12:38 |
| #4 Rambler: I agree. And the Queen should demand the Prime Minister's resignation immediately after a variety of heads roll at the Admiralty. Now is the time to sink the Iranian fleet. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-04-10 12:36 |
| #3 Oh, please. Ms. Turney needs to read about some of the REAL torture, including beatings and mock executions that other prisoners of war endured before signing "confessions". IMHO, the CO of the Cornwall, the Marine captain and Navy Lieutenant should be courtmartialed. |
| Posted by: Rambler 2007-04-10 12:20 |
| #2 We'll have a permanent record of the Abu Ghrab whiners who now are so silent with the internet archives. It'll make assembling the 'proscribed' list that much easier when the time comes. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-04-10 08:51 |
| #1 At least they didn't put mens underwear on her head. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-04-10 06:02 |