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29 March 2007

Captive female sailor...

Calling for Brit withdrawal in Iraq?
A second letter allegedly written by a UK sailor in Iranian custody has been broadcast on Iranian state television.

In the letter, the sailor calls for the withdrawal of British forces from Iraq, according to an al-Hurra report in Arabic, saying that "the time has come" for a UK withdrawal.
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RELATED: Who is Faye Turney?

Well, in her own words...
"I love the satisfaction of being able to walk away from a job and know that I have coped and completed the task just as well as a man would have done it."
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UPDATE: The UN is here, crisis over

The Brits were looking for the UN to "deplore" the situation... but after hours of debate, had to settle for "grave concern."
"Members of the Security Council expressed grave concern at the capture by the Revolutionary Guard and the continuing detention by the government of Iran of 15 United Kingdom naval personnel and appealed to the government of Iran to allow consular access in terms of the relevant international laws," the statement said.
How's that for getting medieval on their ass? I guess there really is something more useless and expensive than the Canadian Senate.

Maybe this whole situation would be less worrisome if the UN was in charge of dog licences and not, say... policing up rogue nuclear weapons.
-- VIENNA -- The United States and key allies are pressing the UN nuclear monitoring agency to find Iran in violation of its commitment to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty over Tehran's refusal to allow remote monitoring of its underground uranium enrichment plant, diplomats said Thursday.
We are so screwed.

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