The Government is demanding the "immediate and safe return" of 15 British sailors and Marines seized at gunpoint by Iranian forces. They were taking part in a routine operation boarding merchant ships in Iraqi territorial waters when they were taken captive by Iranian naval vessels. The sailors and Marines had completed a successful inspection of one ship, reportedly a dhow, when the group and their two boats were surrounded. They were then escorted by Iranian vessels into its territorial waters. ...
The men, from the Type 22 frigate HMS Cornwall, were seized in the Shatt Al Arab waterway. The Royal Navy insists they were operating in Iraqi waters and not Iranian territory. It is thought the operation was part of a crackdown on smugglers. The commanding officer of HMS Cornwall, Commodore Nick Lambert told Sky News: "I have got 15 sailors and Marines who have been arrested by the Iranians.
"My immediate concern is that their safety and their safe return to me is ensured." A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "We are urgently pursuing this matter with the Iranian authorities at the highest level. The British Government is demanding the immediate and safe return of our people and equipment."
The Iranian ambassador was later summoned to the Foreign Office to discuss the incident. It is not the first time British servicemen have run up against Iranian forces in the troubled waters between Iran and Iraq.
Eight men were seized and detained after three patrol boats were said to have strayed into the Iranian side of the Shatt al Arab waterway in July 2004. They were later released. Analysts have told Sky News that such cases are normally resolved peacefully. The latest incident comes at a time of renewed tensions with Iran over Tehran's nuclear program. It also coincides with fresh claims of Iranian interference in Iraq - UK commanders say Iran is arming and funding insurgents attacking British troops.
Please God, please, let this be Iran's fatal mistake. Bye bye, Mahmoud.
Ok, now that you bring it up, I think I will.
ReplyDeleteAnd, by the way, how do you know I'm a Christian?
why don't you join the army and protect Israel and the financial interests of rich jews.
ReplyDeleteGreat. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is back!
Popinjay,
ReplyDeleteI was going to let that go, but I'm glad you brought it up.
joihn samhain is a piece of shit pagan nazi anti-semite.
ReplyDeleteand his argument that if you are hawk you have to volunteer to fight is IDIOTIC.
if you're against crime do you have to become a cop!?
if you eat burgers do you have to be a butcher or a cowboy?!
if you support low taxes on the wealthy do you have to be wealthy!?
if you support legalization of narcotics do you have to be an addict!?!
if you support gay rights do you have to be gay?!?
no no no no no.
it is just an idiotic knee-jerk argument by a jerk.
all chickenhawk arguments are idiotic.
john samhain is an idiot.
i asked him once to give me a list of any great pagan in any field - sports, medicine, physics, literature, politics, military - any.
he has provided NONE.
pagans have contributed NOTHING to human civilization, advanced the lives of humans NOT ONE IOTA.
jews - not one percent of the world's population have made ENORMOUS contributions - to the lives of people EVERYWHERE, including the lives of pagans assholes like samhain.
he takes medicine jews invented, uses technology jews INVENTED, enjoys life in a world a world inextricably bound up with JUDAISM: Western Civilization: Judeo-Christian Civilization.
HEY FUCKING ASSHOLE JOHN SAMHAIN: IF YOU HATE JEWS SO MUCH AND LOVE PAGANS AND NAZIS SO MUCH, THEN WHY DON'T YOU FUCKING LIVE A LIFE WITHOUT ANYTHING JEWS - OR CHRISTIANS INVENTED.
you can start by living without LAWS, for without the TEN COMMANDMENTS and the TORAH there would be no US CONSTITUTION or CIVIL CODE..
YUP: the idea that humans must live according to UNIVERSAL LAWS is a JEWISH "invention" - the Jews were first to say God makers Law ands all men - EVEN KINGS! - must follow them.
that's a key reason asshole tyrants throughout human history hated PERSECUTED Jews: OUR existence THREATENED their "absolute" tyranny: we held that THEIR laws were not true law or NATURAL law, only God's Law is universal.
The PILGRIMS and the Founding Fathers based OUR foundational documents on these VERY JEWISH values.
YUP: there would be no USA without Judaism.
Pilgrims even called the New World they were crating here NEW JERUSALEM.
so if ya wanna practice what you preach then move to the fucking wilds of pagan Celticland - if you can find it. NOW.
and JOHN: if you cannot find this pagan paradise then do please do just fuck off.
to john samhain from springfield PA who logs on at the public library there:
ReplyDeleteyou are a moron.
this bit is totally false anti-semitic propaganda a lies:
"Jews are non-Biblical, they follow malevolent lose interpretations of the Bible expressed in the Zohar and Talmud, where they often express that they (the Jewish people) are greater then God. They believe that God has an unbreakable covenant with the modern day state of "Israel" and it's Chosen people. That is, they tell god what to do, the Talmud has the "Rebbes" winning wrestling matches and intellegence tournaments against God."
where do you learn this crap!?!? sheesh.
i suggest you google/OU TUBE a speech by JOHN HAGEE that he gave at AIPAC. Hagee's a famous baptist evangelical preacher who KNOWS THE TRUTH. watch all three video: you will learn the TRUTH, and the TRUTH will set you free.
you support your local police and you expect them and pay them to do the work you don;t haver to do.
DITTO OUR ARMED FORCES.
we can support them without having to suit up.
and i don't give a shit whether you support israel or not.
God does. History proves this.
and btw: where's the list of notable pagans and their contribution to humanity!?!?
asshole. moron. dupe. grow up!
see the light.
you need to be de-programmed.
i guess you are about 16, so i think there's hope for you...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDRxmqOn7x4
What pretty little braids you have twisted truth into, Samhain.
ReplyDeleteThis ree-tard John Samhain is a troll who can't even keep his own blog going, he has to vomit his filth in other people's houses because his sickness doesn't allow him to focus long enough to create...he tries to destroy.
ReplyDeleteYour responses to him were spot-on!