From: George Sherwood 

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:16:13 +0100, Phil Payne wrote:

>> > 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."

And I will match your fishermen with my fisherman and he says the ship was
anchored so that blows your moved to Iranian waters theory. Everything that
I have read convinces me they were in Iraqi waters.  Time will tell, but I
would bet a few pints.

George

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PAR447455.htm

An Iraqi fisherman who said he saw Iranian forces detain British sailors
and marines on Friday in a waterway between Iraq and Iran said on Saturday
the ship British forces were searching was anchored in Iraqi waters.

Iran has condemned what it called the illegal entry of 15 British naval
personnel into Iranian waters as a "suspicious act", the official
IRNA news agency said on Saturday.

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