As if its worse than a mountain of naked people in the Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo style or with secret prisons according to the WASHINGTON CONVENTIONS !!!! and she suddenly transmogrified from a UK marine to a mother ... Brits are truly hilarious !!!
http://www.wbir.com/news/national/story.aspx?storyid=43780 Tensions rise between Iran, UK, as sailors remain captive By: Katie Allison Granju, Producer LONDON - Britain said Thursday that it would seek United Nations condemnation of Iran for taking its 15 Royal Navy crewmembers last week, as the dispute over the fate of the crew grew. Iran, however, said Britain had mishandled the situation and said it would not release Britain's lone female crewmember as it said it would because it was increasing international pressure. Iran's chief negotiator, Ali Larijani, chastised Britain for having "an incorrect attitude" and warned that release of any of the captives may not be imminent. Iran's Mehr News Agency reported that the promised release of sailor Faye Turney would be suspended. And Larijani, head of Iran's supreme national security council, hinted on Iranian state radio that the crew could be put on trial, saying, "This case may face a legal path." Britain insisted that it was not seeking a confrontation over the crew, even as the exchange of words and demands between the two nations escalated in tit-for-tat fashion. FIND MORE STORIES IN: Iraq | Iran | Iran | London | Britain | British | Tony Blair | Mottaki | Larijani ON DEADLINE: Iran backs off release MORE:Iran delays release of female captive On Wednesday, Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, had told BBC television that Turney would be "released very soon." Mottaki also said that Iran would allow British diplomats to visit the crew, although he didn't say when. Iran maintains that the British crew was taken into custody after trespassing into its territorial waters in a narrow waterway that separates Iran from Iraq. Britain, however, says the crew was conducting a routine anti-smuggling inspection of a merchant ship 1.7 miles inside Iraqi waters when the crewmembers were "ambushed" by Iranian gunboats. The mounting crisis has kept oil prices near six-month highs on worries that a prolonged confrontation could disrupt Gulf oil supplies. It has exacerbated tensions between Iran and the West, which already were high over disputes about Iran's uranium enrichment program. Iran says its nuclear program is to generate power. The West fears that it could be turned into weapon production. After failing to gain the crew's release through quiet diplomatic channels, the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair ratcheted up the pressure on Iran on Wednesday. It cut off trade and travel contact with Iran, made public the satellite coordinates of the crew and vowed to bring international pressure on the Iranian government. Larijani said, "British leaders have miscalculated this issue" and were making a "fuss" over the dispute. British newspapers expressed outrage at having the crew paraded before television cameras and in response to a letter that Turney allegedly wrote to her parents, in which she wrote that the crew had "apparently" entered Iran's territorial waters. "We were out in the boats when we were arrested by Iranian forces as we had apparently gone into Iranian waters," the letter, a copy of which was sent to The Associated Press, said. "I wish we hadn't because then I'd be home with you all right now." The Daily Mail of London found the TV footage disgusting. "A British mother paraded on state TV. Forced to wear the hijab," it blared on Page One. And most editorial writers warned that Iran was severely damaging its credibility in the world at a time when it couldn't afford it by continuing to insist that the crew had trespassed. "All it does is isolate Iran further," The Daily Telegraph of London wrote. "Enlightened self-interest, as well as simple justice, demands the captives' release immediately." Although the crisis appeared to be spinning out of control, Middle East analyst Rosemary Hollis with London's Chatham House international think tank said that it still could be resolved without further escalation. The key, she said, is for Britain to focus on the actual dispute over the location of the incident and to ensure that the crew is not punished for any perceived disagreement over their precise location. The worst scenario, Hollis said, is to give Iran any cause to turn the incident into a wider fight against the United States and the West over its nuclear program or allow the crew to be turned into hostages that could be swapped. U.S. forces in Iraq are holding five Iranian officials who were taken into custody in January in northern Iraq in an Iranian liaison office. The officials had been suspected of having ties aimed at targeting Iraqi and coalition forces. So far, Iran has said the current incident is not linked to any other issue. Contributing: Wire reports -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
