Small boat raids and the Brits you're either talking about the SBS or the Royal Marines. That means there very well could have been a covert op going on, but the Brits are pretty responsive when their guys are captured, they have even paid ransom to return some, unlike our government.
Also, I'd say that their government has higher levels of certainty when it undertakes an operation than ours does. I'm thinking the Iranians screwed the pooch here. Also, let's not forget their military units don't have the same solid chain of command ours does. Local units do sometimes do "rouge" ops. I know Iranians crossed into Afghanistan several times. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 12:18 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: UK's troops being seized.. USS Pueblo is the first thing that comes to mind. I do find this comment a little interesting. "British naval officials said the sailors, using small boarding craft, had completed an inspection of a merchant vessel in Iraqi waters when the Iranians arrived. " This could be legit, or it could be cover for covert operations, spying, intelligence gathering etc... How long did the USA disavow any knowledge of Gary Powers or any spy plane over the former Soviet Union. Only after they stated they had him in custody did we back off of the "no spy plane story". If there is no evidence of anything other than potentially being in the wrong place (we'll have to see where they actually were) I think the Iranians will hand over the crew and possibly the vessel in short order. however, if there is any evidence of intelligence gathering and the ship was in Iranian water then it's game on and the Iranians will want to expose this as an infringement on their sovereignty. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:231218 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
