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| UAE captures Iranian |
| 2004-06-18 |
| From Geostrategy-Direct, subscription req’d.... Following several years of reconciliation efforts, Iran and the United Arab Emirates are again embroiled in military tensions. The UAE navy has captured an Iranian fishing boat used by Teheran intelligence operatives to spy on U.S. military installations in the emirates. Arab intelligence sources said Iran has been monitoring U.S. naval and other military assets in Gulf Cooperation Council states amid fears of an American attack on Iranian nuclear installations. That is a reasonable fear that the Iranians would have. The sources said Iran has also been concerned that the U.S. could spark a provocation with the International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting this week on Iran’s nuclear program. That is possible, too. The UAE has long felt threatened by Iran’s presence in the Gulf. The UAE has consistently protested Iran’s seizure of three islands in the Gulf claimed by Abu Dhabi. Iran has refused to consider arbitration to settle the dispute. You want it, come and get it. We’re more Islamic than you, punk. |
| Posted by:Alaska Paul |
| #7 So UAE forces have the boat's crew? Okay, since they aren't in U.S. custody, then Emirates' interrogators should torture the crew members in order to extract whatever information can be had. After all, they aren't in U.S. custody, so no one will really notice.... |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-18 9:53:27 PM |
| #6 Are we sure this is an actual 'boat' and not one of those cool, spiffy Zodiac Patrol Craft the press mentioned during Gulf War I, the ones that got cluster bombed by some A-6's. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2004-06-18 8:52:33 PM |
| #5 It's dead calm water also - one of the reasons that neither the Stark nor the Roberts sunk. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-06-18 8:29:51 PM |
| #4 And pretty hard to lose 'em at sea in that puddle called the Persian Gulf! It maxes out at 90m and averages only 50m deep... not much wiggle room for those 'Ranian subs to maneuver, eh? Methinks they stay outside the Straits of Hormuz, heh, down around Bandar Abbas. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-06-18 8:16:49 PM |
| #3 Sometimes they're captured, sometimes they just... disappear. Pappy, isn't it hard to lose all hands at sea when they were already chopped off back on shore? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-06-18 8:12:26 PM |
| #2 Nothing really new here, except that the UAE capture was made public. Iranians have been using dhows for years in intel work around the UAE, Oman, and Bahrain. Lot of times they work with the smugglers. Sometimes they're captured, sometimes they just... disappear. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-06-18 6:57:35 PM |
| #1 "Hey, give that back! Mo-o-o-o-mmmm!!!!!!" |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-06-18 6:48:43 PM |