March 29, 2007
Fake Maritime Boundaries
The Iran/Iraq maritime boundary shown on the British government map does not exist. It has been drawn up by the British Government. Only Iraq and Iran can agree their bilateral boundary, and they never have done this in the Gulf, only inside the Shatt because there it is the land border too. This published boundary is a fake with no legal force.
http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2007/03/fake_maritime_b.html
thanks Conscientious
>compare and contrast: US Silent on Detained Iranians
As the Western media focus on the fate of 15 Britons detained for allegedly trespassing into Iranian waters, the status of five Iranian officials captured in a US military raid on a liaison office in northern Iraq on January 11 remains a mystery.
Even though high-level Iraqi officials have publicly called for their release, for all practical purposes, the Iranians have disappeared into the US-sanctioned "coalition detention" system that has been criticized as arbitrary and even illegal by many experts on international law.
"The US hasn't articulated the legal grounds under which it detains 'combatants'," said John Sifton, a researcher with Human Rights Watch. "They regularly conflate criminal terrorism, innocent civilians and real combatants on the ground, and throw them all into the same pot. The vagueness of the war on terror has supplied the soil under which all this has flourished."
US detention camps in Iraq currently hold more than 15,000 prisoners, most of whom, like the Iranians, have been held without charge or access to tribunals for months, even years...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IC31Ak04.html By Khody Akhavi | Asian Times
~Hey maybe the Brits are planning to lead the invasion force this time?
The Labour Party needs to shed it's poodle image.
On to Tehran!!
More likely after the "pre-emptive strikes" from the RAF fields (aka US bases) in the UK against Iran's "secret nuclear bomb-making sites" both Bush and Blair will solemnly declare more or less permanent states of emergency for their countries.
The elections won't need to be canceled if the parties now in power have a few months to turn their voters into security basket-cases.
In times of war military expediency is more effective than political rhetoric in silencing even the most reasonable critics?
Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Plant large\url
from the (mega-page) Iran Nuclear Resources\ not above
Posted by Stubbornson at March 29, 2007 03:43 PM