Are you for real?

It was a special forces team that doesn't navigate too well.

Or they flunked camouflage class.

;)

Nonsense. The SBS is the best in the world. They can and do give lessons to the SeALs. Maybe the patrol boats were picked up after they did the drop off. What is more likliy is that they were on a standard anti-terrorist patrol and were caught in a squall and when the rain lifted found them selves surrounded and outnumbered. What ever, the Iranians planned this. The tactics alone show that. I have to wonder why they choose this time and way to start a war with the UK. Wrtecherd thinks that Blair won't blink. I'm not so sure. If he does, the UK will deserve what they get. Never back off from a bully, it just encourages them to continue their actions.

Not sure Britain has any room to complain. During the run up to OIF, Saddam deeded the entire waterway back to Iran, hoping to garner support from Iran in particular and Islam in general.

With this on the wires for more than 24 hours now, and no response from London yet, I suspect the lawyers are tearing up the lw books looking for some kind of legal basis to act from.

In the absence of any tort magic, I suspect this will be resolved via negotiation. In the larger view, it isn't going to lenghten the Mullah's term in office though.

Three boats,eight men are just crew.The boats are either Rigid Raiders or inflatables.SBS would have gone at night, probably just what it says.The Iranians are livid because of the condemnation of their nuclear program.

The boats are made by Boston Whaler and carry four.
http://www.bostonwhaler.co.uk/index1.html

The news reports say these guys are normally based at Faslane on the Clyde. This makes them sound more like Commachio than SBS.

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