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2009-11-10 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran charges three Americans with espionage

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Posted by Fred 2009-11-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 The hikers knew the risks. The Iranians are hoping to get something for this that is worth way more than three idiots' lives. Once again, people who don't get it threaten to put the whole process at risk, possibly sowing misery for years to come. And then they get to write a book about it.

Posted by gorb 2009-11-10 00:26|| 2009-11-10 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 IIUC, no "hiker kids" !

http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/shane_bauer

Bauer was also a contributor the the CSM (scroll down past the articles about his arrest).

http://www.shanebauer.net/

IIRC, he's fluent in dialectal arabic, and a full resident of syria (gone native? See his articles tone, you can see to which side he's more inclined to, plus, if sarah is his squeeze, he must be at least nominally a convert), he's done investigative journalism stints in iraq, darfour,...

So it's not like he's an innocent, wide-eyed "kid" caught hiking cluelessly, more likely, a seasoned journalist, who got snabbed while trying to sneak over there, knowing fully what he was doing.

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-11-10 04:02|| 2009-11-10 04:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Hikers? That's a cover story if I ever heard one. They got sent in and then betrayed most likely. Only need to find if they were handed over by traitors or by electronic eavesdropping.

Posted by gromky 2009-11-10 10:04|| ]">[ ] 2009-11-10 10:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Sent in? By the CSM?

Posted by gorb 2009-11-10 10:45|| 2009-11-10 10:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Is there really any need for those to be sent by someone? Bauer is a freelance journalist & photograph, most likely, he was on a story about iranian kurds and/or rebels or something like that, which would be somehow ironical if he's used as a pawn by iran, since his sympathies seem to lay more against the USA in the first place.

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-11-10 11:13|| 2009-11-10 11:13|| Front Page Top

#6 More like they should be charged with aggravated stupidity, but I'm not sure that's covered by the Iranian criminal code.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-11-10 12:37|| 2009-11-10 12:37|| Front Page Top

#7 There's only one reason any American should go anywhere near Iran and that's to bomb the crap out of it.

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-11-10 12:45|| 2009-11-10 12:45|| Front Page Top

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