From: "Phil Payne" 

> > They boarded a moving ship and then got off.  Wanna bet they were in
> > Iraqi/international waters when they got on, and in Iranian waters when
> > they got off, which was when they were taken.

> Now that would figure.  The UK says they were in Iraqi waters, the US
> says they were in Iraqi waters, Iraq says they were in Iraqi waters, but
> you go with the Iranians on this one.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/24/wiran524.xml
 - hardly a left-wing paper:

"The border between Iran and Iraq runs along the waterway and the
Iranians say that British had crossed onto their side, a claim supported by
Brigadier General Hakim Jassim, the Iraqi military commander of the
country's territorial waters.

"We were informed by Iraqi fishermen after they had returned from sea
that there were British gunboats in an area that is out of Iraqi
control," he said."

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