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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (332179)4/8/2007 8:33:54 AM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (2) of 1571130
 
Tejek, of course they were gathering intelligence on Iran. The whole purpose of boarding vessels in those waters is to interdict war materiel from Iran before it reaches insurgents in Iraq. British and US military know that Iran is helping the insurgency, so they are trying to limit the amount of munitions like IEDs from making their way to the insurgents. So the British personnel's admission that they were gathering intel on Iran is not an admission at all. Anyone with any knowledge of what's going on over there at all would have told you the same exact thing. Hell, if you'd asked, I would have told you that is what they were doing. But interdiction of Iranian munitions headed to Iraq does NOT mean they were in Iranian waters. They can do those tasks just as easily once they are in Iraqi waters and the British have some pretty compelling evidence that they were in Iraqi waters. The two most compelling pieces of evidence are the following:
1) the picture of the Brit soldier standing on the moored ship that was boarded holding a GPS device with Iraqi coordinates on it
2) the fact that the original GPS coordinates given to the Brits from Iran were 1.7 miles in IRAQI waters

So all in all, the story could go either way, but right now it's pretty solidly on the side of the British doing exactly what they've been mandated by the UN to do: interdict suspected Iranian munitions coming into Iraqi waters and board ships if necessary to do that.
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