Britain vs Iran
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- mrdobolina0
Britain is saying 1.7 nautical miles inside of Iraqi waters.
Can;t trust either of their words on that shit.
- Mimio0
What does it matter? Iran has been disputing the border since the Iran/Iraq war right? They wanted hostages, so they took them. The British sailors even said "They ambushed us."
- Witt0
if anyone listening,
you can't dispute over GPS in court. you can temper the data and the dat is know to have a disputable error margin. maybe not 1.7 nm i'm sure but it's not a justification.
- PonyBoy0
I agree dobs... can't trust... too close to call...
... and - to make matters worse, they were captured at the mouth where the tigris/euphrates pour into the ocean... which makes for nasty currents... etc etc...
... maybe it was the river's fault?
- mrdobolina0
There is no reason for the brits or the americans to even be in iraq, witt.
But that didn't stop anyone from doing it.
- skt0
- Witt0
well, from the footage on TV i just saw rubber boats. who the hell patrols a war zone in a rubber boat?
if this matter was serious they would have ship logs, and accurate tracking from radar. this whole matter seems vacational from part to part.
- Witt0
i mean, this whole affair seems ridiculous because:
1. the brits supposedly were on a HMS war-vessel and their proof is a GPS tracking record?!
2. Iran released footage of the apprehension affair and you see a bunch of people in rubber boats - like they were fishing in Vancouver and got disturbed.
Either there was something else going on or else even the military are behaving like kids these days.
- Dancer0
What I find fishy is that the Iranians said the Brits were in one GPS location which WAS inside Iraqi waters and then changed their statment the next day. The brits say they were somewhere else. Even the ship the Brits were checking out has a grid location of inside Iraqi waters.
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- jevad0
jesus guys - they took rubber boats FROM HMS Cornwall TO the merchant ship they were checking out.
You don;t board a ship that small from a feckin huge warship you prats!
- Dancer0
You don;t board a ship that small from a feckin huge warship you prats!
jevad
(Mar 29 07, 13:28)Yeah they do. They swing from boat to boat on ropes like Pirates..
ARRRGGHHHHH
- PonyBoy0
jevad's got his fluffy pirate shirt on today.
- Witt0
good lord guys, War-vessels have have computerized location chart-tracking and automatic log systems (I know this, since my parents both work in the navy; even our poor 15 yr old boats have this). They don't need GPS. GPS is for yuppies.
I'm willing to believe those 15 mils went for a border patrol and got into to the grey area (that's more or less a sea-mile = 1.8 miles). Anyway they were probably tracked and should have been warned instead of captured.
No need for war on this one. They're just tugging the rope.
- Witt0
sorry for the bad english. It's not my day.
* wonders if anyone's listening.
- Dancer0
War? Who said war?
Hasn't even been mentioned here in the UK
- Witt0
Nor here. The word is Bush, Blair and Barroso had a nice dinner in the Azores. The menu was a nice portuguese stew (god bless it), boiled in a volcanic geyser.
I'm still wondering who payed the bill.
I'm guessing WE did.
- -sputnik-0
this is just part of the exit strategery:
- Witt0
I'm being tricky here - but the fact is that our PM Barroso left the country with pants down and got into the EU presidency after that dinner. Is this a coincidence?
- Witt0
ahah -sputnik-. I sincerely wouldn't mind being at the the Onion infographics dep. That should be wholesome funny (and enlightening!).
- -sputnik-0
i know witt...they kill me:
http://www.theonion.com/content/…
u ever read smoove b's editorials? so funny!