Thursday, April 05, 2007

A round-up of news and views on the freed captives

The 15 Royal Navy sailors and marines held in Iran for almost two weeks have spoken of their happiness at being back in the UK and reunited with relatives. Freed crew ‘delighted to be home’

WATCH BBC VIDEO: Freed navy crew back in UK

TIMESONLINE: Iran captives ‘freed’ after costume drama

TIMESONLINE: Commentary: Hang on. We’re taking the soft approach towards Iran? … the lessons of dealing with an erratic state

NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG: Es gab keine Abmachung: Blair weist nach Rückkehr der Soldaten aus Iran Spekulationen zurück

NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG: Kommentar: Ahmadinejads wendiger Gnadenakt

FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE: Iran: „Wir haben eine Entschuldigung erhalten“

WELTONLINE: PR-Sieg für Teherans "Osterhasen"

Mark Alexander

6 comments:

Mark said...

One cannot help but be glad for these sailors to be home with their loved ones. That's great news. But what is so troubling in all of this is that the UK has indubitably been humilated. Further, the Royal Navy has been shown to be very weak.

Moreover, I wasn't all that keen on the way these sailors conducted themselves in Iran, either. Faye was shown smoking, which was most undignified, especially for a woman, and more especially in a strictly Islamic country. But more than that, they all came over as fawning. Most undignified!

Unknown said...

I can hardly even follow this story in detail because it makes me feel so cringeingly embarrassed.

Am I alone in this?

Unknown said...

Blogger's acting up again - every now and again it keeps posting my comments as from "jeremia". I really don't know why that happens. It started when Google took over.

Sir Henry Morgan

Mark said...

Jeremia said: I can hardly even follow this story in detail because it makes me feel so cringeingly embarrassed.

Am I alone in this?


Be sure: You are not alone!

Mark said...

From 'Sir Henry' to 'Jeremia'? Are you sure you haven't had a sex change?

:-) :-) :-)

Mark said...

Sir Henry, I'm glad you've had your identity back! It's more you! :-)