Second captive Briton apologizes to Iran

[Jcrowley]

World news

March 30, 2007, 9:53PM

Second captive Briton apologizes to Iran

By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press Writer
© 2007 The Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran — A captive Royal Marine was shown in new TV footage Friday apologizing for being in Iranian waters, and Tehran made public a third letter supposedly written by the only woman prisoner among 15 Britons seized by Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

Britain sharply denounced Iran over the treatment of the captives — a clear sign both sides were hardening their stance as the crisis entered its second week.

Iran appeared intent on sending a message of strength as it faces mounting U.N. Nations sanctions over its uranium enrichment program, which the U.S. and other nations suspect the Islamic Republic is using to develop nuclear weapons.

Underlining Iran's hardline sentiment, some 60,000 soccer fans chanted "Death to Britain" at a match in Tehran, while 700 people rallying near Tehran University yelled "We condemn the British invasion!" A Muslim cleric told worshippers during Friday prayers that "Britain is an aggressor and Iran has confronted it."

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4676688.html

[originalpckelly]

1. So did they just squeeze his testicles or did they hook 'em up to electrodes?

Doesn't someone who worked at Abu Graib hold the patent on the latter one?

[Jcrowley]

2. Well we don't know but what we do know

[Nutmegger]

3. Yay! They torture just like us!

I wonder if they waterboard too? :shrug:

[Jcrowley]

6. I didn't see where it said

they were tortured. Not that I would doubt that it could or would happen.

And certainly we cannot believe any testimony that would at the least be mildly coerced or scripted.

Yes of course the whole affair is disgusting.

[Pavulon]

Yep, They deserve it for Abu Graib

we started the torture thing, no one did it before us, and now those who do can blame us. Jesus Christ.

Iran is dancing with the devil. Britain is not the US, nations will not dismiss this.

The UK has recourse.

[stray cat]

8. The soldiers in custody don't deserve it

And torture has been around a lot longer than our current nations and in absolutely every war. Think of the war in the Pacific in World War II.

[Leopolds Ghost]

4. Creepy

Were POWs treated this way in past wars? Why would a POW agree to apologize on TV? You couldn't get a Marines to do this, even if they were captured by Al Qaeda types in Iraq. Even if the orders they were following weren't kosher, they would never stoop to captors threatening their lives/health and that of American civilians. Iran should have captured and released them, simple as that, after securing a promise that Britain would stop engaging in naval searches in Iranian waters. But what do you expect from a fascist regime that tortures and kidnaps its enemies without trial? We are truly dealing with Gog vs. Magog here in the battle of Bush vs. Ahmadinejad.

[Pavulon]

5. Japan did in ww2

as did every other nation we have engaged in war with since. Both Iraq wars had prisoner parades. NK did after it kidnapped out people from the pueblo.

There are no shortages of morons these days.

Iran's mistake is that the British are not the same as Americans in the worlds eye.

[Marrah_G]

7. Confessions and apologies spoken while you are in fear of your life are void

Now if they are released and say they were treated well and they made an error that would be a very different thing.