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To: MythMan who wrote (289317)	6/22/2004 6:52:51 AM
From: Terry Maloney	Respond to of 436258

Jeez, you'd think the futures would be up more than they are with news like that. <g>

To: MythMan who wrote (289317)	6/22/2004 9:18:07 AM
From: Lucretius	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

gulf war part 3 is very bullish for stocks

To: MythMan who wrote (289317)	6/22/2004 9:28:08 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Invade Iran now. <<They started it>> -g-

To: MythMan who wrote (289317)	6/22/2004 11:03:17 AM
From: redfish	Respond to of 436258

British Sailors to Face Charges, Iran TV Says By NAZILA FATHI Published: June 22, 2004 EHRAN, Iran, June 22 — Iran will prosecute the eight British sailors who were arrested Monday morning and accused of being in Iranian waters without permission, a state-run television station reported today. "They are going to be prosecuted for illegally entering Iranian territorial waters," a military official told the Arabic-language station, Al Alam. In London, Tehran's ambassador was called to an urgent meeting today at the Foreign Office, where officials demanded the crew members' release and asked for full consular access to them, Reuters quoted a spokesman as saying. Also today, the British foreign secretary, Jack Straw, discussed the incident by telephone with his Iranian counterpart, Kamal Kharrazi. "What we are concentrating on now is contacts with the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and trying to gain access," a diplomat at the British Embassy in Tehran said. "Obviously we are hoping for a swift solution to the situation," the diplomat said. "We are in the midst of normal diplomatic contacts and it has been a bit slow." Three small Royal Navy boats were seized Monday morning on the Shatt al Arab, a stretch of water that marks the southern border between Iran and Iraq. The seized crew members have confessed to being about a half-mile inside Iranian waters, the station reported. The British government emphasized that the boats were "very small," a spokesman in London said, and were not outfitted with weapons, although the crew was armed with its personal weapons. The British military controls areas in southern Iraq around the city of Basra and routinely patrols Shatt al Arab. The navy was delivering the three boats to the Iraqi Riverine Patrol Service when the sailors from the navy training team were stopped by the Iranian military. The Iranian television channel showed the crew members dressed in military fatigues sitting at an undisclosed location. The British Embassy here said it had requested to meet with the detained men. Relations between Iran and Britain have been strained in the past few weeks, mostly over the war in Iraq and Iran's nuclear capacity. Britain drafted a resolution last week along with France and Germany denouncing what it said was Iran's lack of cooperation with the United Nations nuclear agency. The embassy in Tehran also faced a series of demonstrations over accusations that British forces abused Iraqi prisoners and desecrated Shiite holy cities in Iraq. nytimes.com