Why Iran grabbed those British sailors
During the last four years, British troops have abducted more than 50 Iranian “spies” in secret operations in southern Iraq.
Iran wants those 50+ people in exchange for the eight British sailors - one a woman - and seven Royal Marines who intruded on Iranian territory. Unlike the United States, Britain has diplomatic relations with Iran.
The incident sent oil prices to a three-month high on Friday.
The British are being held in a secret location to prevent Mossad from murdering them and starting a war.
Ahmadinejad cancelled his trip to the UN amid claims that visas were obstructed.
The British media is asking why its personnel did not “defend themselves.”
The Americans are swaggering. Lt-Cdr Erik Horner, a senior American commander in the Gulf, said he would have fired on the Iranians.
The CIA had warned British intelligence that Iran would seek revenge for having so many of its people thrown into a dungeon, but England refused to raise threat levels.
The Royal Navy team from the ship HMS Cornwall was seized on March 23 after they boarded a merchant in what they claimed were Iraqi waters. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy appeared in six attack speedboats with machine guns.
Independent, The (London), Feb 19, 2002 by Kim Sengupta
After its military successes in Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan, Britain tried on Sunday to end the continuing row over Gibraltar by invading Spain.
That, at least, is what it may have looked like to the inhabitants of the Spanish town of La Linea de la Concepcion when they saw waves of Royal Marines hit the beach wielding mortar launchers and SA80 assault rifles. Sunbathers sat up startled, fishermen gawped and children ran to their mothers as the men of 45 Commando took up battle stations. It was then that they were approached by a policeman asking: "Excuse me, Inglese, but which country do you think you are in?"
Having realised they were not in Gibraltar, the marines packed up their weapons and climbed back into their landing craft, muttering apologies, to go further south.
The marines, based at Condor Barracks, near Arbroath in Scotland, were taking part in an exercise while sailing to the Gulf on the helicopter carrier, HMS Ocean. The wrong landing, a corporal pointed out, was due to "one of the most dangerous things in the world - an officer with a map".
http://www.findarticles.com/p/ar...19/ ai_n12599005
... putting the story of captured Brits in the context of Brits mistakenly invading Spain... comedy genius! :D