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To: TobagoJack who wrote (51240)	6/25/2004 7:43:53 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) of 74559

Jay, Dolinar: British soldiers tried a Catch 22 solution to be sent home but it didn't work. They were returned to Iraq! Remember Yossarian -played by Alan Arkin- training to ditch his plane in the sea and get his ticket home? Released British troops fly back to Iraq By DIANA ELIAS ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER The eight British servicemen held since Monday by Iran for illegal entry into Iranian waters are seen at Kuwait airport Friday June 25, 2004, as they return to their units. Their earlier release by the Iranian authorities brought an end to a diplomatic stand-off between London and Tehran. The troops were detained Monday after their boats apparently strayed into the Iranian side of the Shatt al-Arab waterway that runs along the Iran-Iraq border while delivering a patrol boat to Iraq's new river police.(AP Photo/Giles Penfound, Crown Copyright) KUWAIT CITY -- Eight British servicemen detained for four days in Iran returned to Iraq on Friday, ending a diplomatic crisis. An Iranian commercial flight took the six Royal Marines and two sailors back to the British sector in southern Iraq after stops in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. The eight were captured Monday when their river patrol boats apparently strayed onto the Iranian side of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, or Arvand River, that runs along the Iran-Iraq border. Britain said the troops were from a Royal Navy training team based in southern Iraq and were delivering a boat to Iraq's new river police. Iran initially said it would prosecute them for illegally entering Iranian waters. British concern mounted after Iranian television showed the eight blindfolded and sitting cross-legged on the ground. On Thursday Iran turned the men over to the British Embassy in Tehran. "They appear fit and well and in good spirits," Capt. Hisham Halawai said. Iran's foreign minister says Iran was also returning their three boats. State media had reported earlier Iran planned to keep them.

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