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2007-03-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran: British sailors treated in humane manner

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Posted by Fred 2007-03-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hey, Rosie "the Beast" O'Donnell won't have any trouble believing it. Iranian propaganda is revealed truth to her.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-03-28 00:10|| 2007-03-28 00:10|| Front Page Top

#2 RENSE.com > UK ENVOY > Seizure of RN sailors by Iran may be legitimate. Has to do wid International Law + contested boundaries, aka OOOOPSIES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-28 04:02|| 2007-03-28 04:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said on Tuesday that the 26-year-old female sailor, Faye Turney, had been provided privacy, adding, "All moral codes have certainly been observed."

Including, presumably, charming Orcish folkways concerning to taking of slave-concubines. After all, this was the deen of the Perfect Man (no, not al-Gor).

Posted by Excalibur 2007-03-28 10:20|| 2007-03-28 10:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Iran said a female British sailor seized with 14 other crewmembers would be released Wednesday or Thursday, softening Tehran's position by suggesting their boats' alleged entry into Iranian waters may have been a mistake.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki discounted the possibility of an escalation in the crisis, suggesting the British vessels may have made a mistake. ``This is a violation that just happened. It could be natural. They did not resist,'' he told The Associated Press.

``Today or tomorrow, the lady will be released,'' Mottaki said Wednesday on the sidelines of an Arab summit in the Saudi capital, referring to sailor Faye Turney, 26, the only woman among the 15.

Didn't the Iranians release the female hostages early during the US Embassy capture?

Posted by Steve 2007-03-28 10:31|| 2007-03-28 10:31|| Front Page Top

#5 The hostage-takers, declaring their solidarity with other "oppressed minorities" and "the special place of women in Islam," released 13 women and African-Americans in the middle of November 1979. One more hostage, Richard Queen, was released in July 1980 after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The remaining 52 hostages were held captive until January 1981.

Source - Wikipedia.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble 2007-03-28 10:50|| 2007-03-28 10:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Say it ain't so Joe. You can't take rense seriously.

Posted by Jacko 2007-03-28 12:35|| 2007-03-28 12:35|| Front Page Top