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To: Neeka who wrote (200378)	3/24/2007 2:46:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 793757

he incident occurred mid-morning when a boarding party left HMS Cornwall, the flagship of the multinational task force in the northern Gulf, in two small craft to inspect an Iranian merchant ship. When the inspection was completed the British were surrounded by six larger vessels from a Revolutionary Guards naval unit. The Iranian ships are normally armed with heavy mounted machineguns while the British had only side arms to protect themselves. The British personnel were then escorted at gunpoint into Iranian territorial waters, where they have now disappeared. Commodore Nick Lambert, the commander of HMS Cornwall, said that a helicopter monitored the boats being moved up the Shatt al-Arab waterway, which demarcates the Iran-Iraq border, towards an Iranian base. In other words, the frigate was standing close by and el Commodore Chickenshit stood by and watched his men being approached by six (!) boats from Iranian waters, detained at gunpoint, and led away. WTF??