Kidnapped British Soldiers

[SentToStud]

Originally Posted by skippy3481

Why in the world does no one seem to care about this? 15 british soldiers are kidnapped by the iranian military, and no one bats an eye. This is an act of war. They refuse to release them are currently "talking to them to find out why they were near iranian waters? Why the hell aren't the british getting their people back? Honestly, is everyone that afraid of Iran...

It's interesting the BBC refers to them as captured and not victims of kidnapping. The UK and Iran have a history of similar incidents including the capture of a British ship and troops on the Shatt al-Arab River a few years ago when Britain admitted the ship had 'mistakenly' entered Iranian waters. The big difference is that the Iranian government then was pro-Western and now it is run by the Revolutionary Guard. The other important difference is that this happened in the Persian Gulf which is far more globally important than the Shatt al-Arab. Between the global importance of the Gulf, questionable British intentions, the new Iranian government and that government's desire to show resistance to the West it's a fairly interesting and very delicate situation. It's all about Iran demonstrating regional influence. It seems they're succeeding. It'll be interesting if the UK actually releases the coordinates of the ships track just to see how close they actually got and how much risk they took.

[Danzig]

i think the problem is that the area had been disputed as to boundaries, but iran and iraq had settled the question--but that was pre-iran/iraq war. iraq attacked way back when to start that war, so now it appears iran thinks all bets are off as to what had been settled, and they're back to claiming what they had formerly given up.

but iran does things like this all the time, no surprise really....it's what they do, taking hostages. in a nutshell, that's what they've done here.

cracks me up that when anything happens, ol' rosie o'donnell automatically assumes the worst--whether it be regarding the u.s., or in this case one of it's allies. she said apparently britain strayed. apparently? it's apparent that's what happened?
ugh, she kills me.

[magic_idol]

Got that Google Earth,Typed in Iran it came up with the region,Typed in tehran the satalite scanned in closer, Typed in British Hostages it came up unable to find , But did see a soccer ground with swimming pools near the british embassy.

I think all is covered in Danzigs post this is not the first time & iran will use the hostages to barter some sort of deal