From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lemnitzer@india.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "A British mother paraded on state TV. Forced to wear the hijab, " Date: 29 Mar 2007 15:02:43 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1175205763.292370.154930@y66g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> References: <1175205127.837146.59020@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175208021 27082 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2007 22:40:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:40:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 30 00:40:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HX3Hx-0005Rl-UG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:40:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HX3Ka-0000RG-Cn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:42:56 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!y66g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: sci.optics,sci.materials,gnu.emacs.help,sci.engr.mech,sci.chem Original-Lines: 119 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.28.100.121 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1175205764 24402 127.0.0.1 (29 Mar 2007 22:02:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:02:44 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1175205127.837146.59020@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y66g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.28.100.121; posting-account=X7pd3g0AAAC-Mo39hHzx-RphSxiFtvt_ Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu sci.optics:94474 sci.materials:60164 gnu.emacs.help:146687 sci.engr.mech:88496 sci.chem:306473 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42291 Archived-At: Please view my profile at the following link http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?enc_user=6F2PmhMAAAAHRraBJdHcIgEcc_F3ynfDWMj6vob75xS36mXc24h6ww and read the incisive but brief analysis below: On Mar 29, 1:52 pm, lemnit...@india.com wrote: > As if its worse than a mountain of naked people in the Abu Ghraib or > Guantanamo style or with secret prisons according to the WASHINGTON > CONVENTIONS !!!! and she suddenly transmogrified from a UK marine to a > mother ... Brits are truly hilarious !!! > > http://www.wbir.com/news/national/story.aspx?storyid=43780 > > Tensions rise between Iran, UK, as sailors remain captive > By: Katie Allison Granju, Producer > > LONDON - Britain said Thursday that it would seek United Nations > condemnation of Iran for taking its 15 Royal Navy crewmembers last > week, as the dispute over the fate of the crew grew. > Iran, however, said Britain had mishandled the situation and said it > would not release Britain's lone female crewmember as it said it would > because it was increasing international pressure. > > Iran's chief negotiator, Ali Larijani, chastised Britain for having > "an incorrect attitude" and warned that release of any of the captives > may not be imminent. > > Iran's Mehr News Agency reported that the promised release of sailor > Faye Turney would be suspended. And Larijani, head of Iran's supreme > national security council, hinted on Iranian state radio that the crew > could be put on trial, saying, "This case may face a legal path." > > Britain insisted that it was not seeking a confrontation over the > crew, even as the exchange of words and demands between the two > nations escalated in tit-for-tat fashion. > > FIND MORE STORIES IN: Iraq | Iran | Iran | London | Britain | British > | Tony Blair | Mottaki | Larijani > > ON DEADLINE: Iran backs off release > > MORE:Iran delays release of female captive > > On Wednesday, Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, had told > BBC television that Turney would be "released very soon." Mottaki also > said that Iran would allow British diplomats to visit the crew, > although he didn't say when. > > Iran maintains that the British crew was taken into custody after > trespassing into its territorial waters in a narrow waterway that > separates Iran from Iraq. Britain, however, says the crew was > conducting a routine anti-smuggling inspection of a merchant ship 1.7 > miles inside Iraqi waters when the crewmembers were "ambushed" by > Iranian gunboats. > > The mounting crisis has kept oil prices near six-month highs on > worries that a prolonged confrontation could disrupt Gulf oil > supplies. It has exacerbated tensions between Iran and the West, which > already were high over disputes about Iran's uranium enrichment > program. Iran says its nuclear program is to generate power. The West > fears that it could be turned into weapon production. > > After failing to gain the crew's release through quiet diplomatic > channels, the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair > ratcheted up the pressure on Iran on Wednesday. It cut off trade and > travel contact with Iran, made public the satellite coordinates of the > crew and vowed to bring international pressure on the Iranian > government. > > Larijani said, "British leaders have miscalculated this issue" and > were making a "fuss" over the dispute. > > British newspapers expressed outrage at having the crew paraded before > television cameras and in response to a letter that Turney allegedly > wrote to her parents, in which she wrote that the crew had > "apparently" entered Iran's territorial waters. > > "We were out in the boats when we were arrested by Iranian forces as > we had apparently gone into Iranian waters," the letter, a copy of > which was sent to The Associated Press, said. "I wish we hadn't > because then I'd be home with you all right now." > > The Daily Mail of London found the TV footage disgusting. "A British > mother paraded on state TV. Forced to wear the hijab," it blared on > Page One. > > And most editorial writers warned that Iran was severely damaging its > credibility in the world at a time when it couldn't afford it by > continuing to insist that the crew had trespassed. > > "All it does is isolate Iran further," The Daily Telegraph of London > wrote. "Enlightened self-interest, as well as simple justice, demands > the captives' release immediately." > > Although the crisis appeared to be spinning out of control, Middle > East analyst Rosemary Hollis with London's Chatham House international > think tank said that it still could be resolved without further > escalation. > > The key, she said, is for Britain to focus on the actual dispute over > the location of the incident and to ensure that the crew is not > punished for any perceived disagreement over their precise location. > > The worst scenario, Hollis said, is to give Iran any cause to turn the > incident into a wider fight against the United States and the West > over its nuclear program or allow the crew to be turned into hostages > that could be swapped. > > U.S. forces in Iraq are holding five Iranian officials who were taken > into custody in January in northern Iraq in an Iranian liaison office. > The officials had been suspected of having ties aimed at targeting > Iraqi and coalition forces. > > So far, Iran has said the current incident is not linked to any other > issue. > > Contributing: Wire reports