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2007-03-23 Iraq

Iran Nabs British Sailors in Iraq Waters

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Posted by Steve 2007-03-23 08:59|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 1 iranian navy vessel should be destroyed every hour until the Limeys are released. Sink iranian ships even if they are in iranian ports. Oh, and deploy some mines...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-03-23 10:26|| 2007-03-23 10:26|| Front Page Top

#2 From a Reuters wire:

"Hopefully there has been a mistake that has been made and we will see early clarification and an early release of my people," Commodore Nick Lambert, commander of the British fleet in the area, said in a television interview aboard HMS Cornwall.

Nelson would be so proud ...

Posted by mrp 2007-03-23 10:30|| 2007-03-23 10:30|| Front Page Top

#3 My feeling is that British ROE's were to let their people get snatched - it's part of the softly-softly approach. This is why Iranians have seized exactly zero Americans (since attempts probably get reported as firefights), whereas Brits have been snatched three or more times.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-03-23 11:58|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-03-23 11:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Can these asinine Iranian sods possibly beg any harder to get their arses kicked? What will it finally take? A personal address by Ahmadinejad before the UN assembly requesting any and all to open up a six pack of whoop-@ss at the earliest opportunity?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-23 12:07|| 2007-03-23 12:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Is this Iran's response to the recent spate of their senior military staff who've "diappeared"?

Posted by WhitecollarRedneck 2007-03-23 12:35|| 2007-03-23 12:35|| Front Page Top

#6 "British ROE's were to let their people get snatched .."

Just so as to make the likes of Magaret Beckett relevant.....summon the Iraniam ambassador,haha. She's got a giant hole in her bucket, a worse idiotarian FM than the previous man of Straw.

Utterly disgusting and simply unbelievable this time around. Witnessed by HMS Cornwall's helicopter and as if out of range of its radar!

Posted by Duh! 2007-03-23 13:49|| 2007-03-23 13:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Fact Card - HMS Cornwall:

Armaments:

Eight Harpoon anti-ship missiles; GWS 25 MOD3 Seawof anti-missile, anti-aircraft system; 2(4) x 30mm single-barrel guns; 4.5 inch Mk8 shore bombardment, anti-aircraft and anti ship gun; CIWS3 Goalkeeper anti-missile system; two triple STWS torpedo tubes

Will to use them:

Zero

Posted by Excalibur 2007-03-23 13:59|| 2007-03-23 13:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Anyone got any figures on what kind of tonnage the UK/ US has in the area?

Posted by Howard UK 2007-03-23 15:31|| 2007-03-23 15:31|| Front Page Top

#9 The Iranian régime keeps pushing themselves into a Saddam solution. The sooner the better for our Coalition troops combating the jihadist enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2007-03-23 18:47|| 2007-03-23 18:47|| Front Page Top

#10 The following ROE's ought to be in place immediately (and should have been in place here),

1) Any vessel suspected to be partaking in elicit activities is subject to boarding without notice and, in such cases as the suspect vessel does not immediately heave to and submit, to being sunk,

2) Anyone interfering with the capture and or sinking of suspect vessels is also subject to immediate countermeasures against them including offensive military action,

3) The kidnapping of any personnel partaking in actions sanctioned by the UN or the USA in international waters is and will be considered an act of war which will bring immediate action upon the perpetrators as needed by the situation in question,

4) The entirety of the Presian Gulf including those areas included by territorial waters and all areas included and agreed to be international waters is declared to be a war zone and to be completely covered by the terms of this declaration,

5) Any and all attacks upon any vessel operating under UN flag conditions or any vessel operating under the US flag, shall be considered an act of war upon the USA and shall be responded to with the maximum force with which the appropriate military forces can deliver as per the orders of the President.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-03-23 20:26|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-03-23 20:26|| Front Page Top

#11 Start with a shot across the bow, and proceed from there, FOTSGreg?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-23 20:28|| 2007-03-23 20:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Start with a shot THROUGH the bows. If they don't stop, put a dozen or so into the bridge. If they STILL don't stop, sink them.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-03-23 21:51|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-03-23 21:51|| Front Page Top

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