From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"George Sherwood"  wrote in message
news:pan.2007.03.26.16.44.59{at}beernabeer.com...
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:08:17 -0400, Rich Gauszka wrote:
>
> Take hostage from an embassy - Iranians have
>> done that - so have we now.
>
> Rich,
>   Can you explain where we have done that?  Those Iranians taken in Iraq
> were neither accredited diplomats or in an Embassy. Unless you are
> talking about some other situation.
>
> George

Actually among those we arrested were two accredited diplomats who we
turned over to the Iraqi government who release them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/world/middleeast/25iraq.html?ex=1324702800&en
=57bbb45f8e61b7ba&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Page two of the article.

"In one raid, which took place around 7 p.m. that day, American forces
stopped an official Iranian Embassy car carrying the two Iranian diplomats,
one or two Iranian guards and an Iraqi driver. Iraqi officials said that
the diplomats had been praying at the Buratha mosque and that when it was
stopped, the car was in the Allawi neighborhood, a few minutes from the
Iranian Embassy to the west of the Tigris River."

If I recall correctly some of the news stories said those arrested in the
Kurdish areas were there with the knowledge of the Iraqi government.

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