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Re: Iran may charge British sailors
[Re: Double-J]
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04/04/07 10:45 AM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6525905.stmIran 'to release British sailors' Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says 15 British naval personnel captured in the Gulf will be freed. He repeated allegations that the British sailors and marines "invaded" Iranian waters, but said they would be freed as a "gift" to Britain. He made the announcement at a news conference, in which he also awarded medals to the commanders who captured the British personnel in the Gulf. He said the Britons would be released immediately and taken to an airport. "They are free after this meeting and can go back to their families," Mr Ahmadinejad said. The British government was not even brave enough to tell their people the truth Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "I'm asking Mr Blair to not put these 15 personnel on trial because they admitted they came to Iranian territorial water," he said, referring to taped "confessions" made by the British sailors and marines. "I ask Mr Blair: Instead of occupying the other countries, I ask Mr Blair to think about the justice, to think about the truth and work for the British people not for himself." Britain says the 15 were in Iraqi waters under a UN mandate when they were captured nearly two weeks ago. It says the confessions were extracted under duress. "Unfortunately the British government was not even brave enough to tell their people the truth, that it made a mistake," Mr Ahmadinejad said. "We have every right to put these people on trial," he asserted. "But I want to give them as a present to the British people to say they are all free." A spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair said: "We welcome what the president has said about the release of our 15 personnel. We are now establishing exactly what this means in terms of the method and timing of their release." Mr Ahmadinejad also criticised the US-led invasion of Iraq and Israel's war in Lebanon. He used a news conference marking the Persian New Year to condemn the countries he said were behind "misery" and "destruction" in the world. He said there did not appear to be anyone "to stand up and defend the rights of those oppressed". He opened the news conference with references to the Islamic holy book, the Koran, then made a wide-ranging speech about the modern history of the Middle East, while attacking the West. The invasion of Iraq was based on the false premise that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, he said, but even now "the occupation forces continue to stay there and people are still being killed".
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Re: Iran may charge British sailors
[Re: Don Cardi]
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04/04/07 03:01 PM
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I heard an "expert" on our news before saying that the reason talks took so long was because it was Persian New Year and there were no Iranian people at work over the last 2 weeks! Well who have Blair and his pals been negotiating with then i ask? The Janitor in the Iranian Parliament or maybe it was the night shift Security guard?!?! Arseholes the lot of them 'specially that flamin' janitor
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Re: Iran may charge British sailors
[Re: ronnierocketAGO]
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04/04/07 03:13 PM
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So you guys' heated political debates over the years...was pre-planned?
I haven't been this upset since I was 12, when I found out that Professional Wrestling was fake. DC and I have had plenty of heated debates, and will probably continue to do so in the future. It is also a fact that DC and I have become friends, and our political disagreements are not personal disagreements. I have the utmost respect for DC, and I hope he does for me. That doesn't mean we have to agree on political matters or on world affairs. Please note, that DC's recent comment to me was accompanied by a wink. Way back DC told me he took offense at my calling people politically to the right "wingholes," and considered it a personal attack. I have not used those words on these boards since. In this latest exchange I was crowing about the benefits of negotiation and DC was saying that maybe we softened them up by going into Iraq. Both points have merit, and there were no personal attacks, just a friendly exchange of points of view. So why are you so mad? You were TWELVE when you learned pro wrestling was fake?
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Re: Iran may charge British sailors
[Re: dontomasso]
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04/04/07 09:06 PM
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Double-J
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Well Well Well....amazing what you can do with negotiations (as opposed to blowing people off the face of the map as neocons always wish to do. I bet Bush is terribly disappointed. By following the rules of the Film Actor's Guild, the world can become a better place; that handles dangerous people with talk, and reasoning; that, is the fag way. One day you'll all look at the world us actors created and say, "wow, good going, fag. You really made the world a better place, didn'tcha, fag?"
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