the hostage crisis now appears to be proceeding if not
also deepening under the widespread but false premise
that the british version of the arrest location is
seaward of the coastal baseline
also
the iranians too are now claiming to have gps support
for their version of the arrest location
presumably within indisputably iranian waters as they
claim
tho not necessarily
since we still dont know this position in relation to
the baseline
also
some wiggle room for realizing error does appear to
persist
insofar as the possibility of there having been some
mistake is being actively entertained & discussed
along with the possibility of making an admission & a
correction
however an apparent admission & apology by the
apparent alpha hostage
a lady
has evidently had no effect
or a negative effect in view of the diplomatic denials
new york times
http://tinyurl.com/3x5j8y
aljazeera & opinion
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=12997
& the following snips are from
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2007/03/ap_british_sailors_iran_070329/
etc
>In London, Vice Adm. Charles Style said the British
boats were seized at 29 degrees 50.36 minutes north
latitude and 48 degrees 43.08 minutes east longitude.
He said that position had been confirmed by an
Indian-flagged merchant ship boarded by the sailors
and marines.
>But the position, outside the waterway in the Gulf,
is an area where no legal boundary exists, leaving it
unclear whose territory it lies in, said Kaiyan
Kaikobad, author of “The Shatt al-Arab Boundary
Question.”
>“What we do have is a de facto state-practiced
boundary — a line both countries have been observing
on the spot,” he said. “The problem is that though the
British have drawn a line where they claim the de
facto line is, we haven’t seen an Iranian version.”
>On Thursday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
discussed the fate of the captives with Iranian
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on the sidelines
of an Arab summit in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, that
both were attending.
>The European Union’s foreign policy chief urged Iran
to free the captives, saying the standoff is blocking
efforts to improve relations between Tehran and
Europe.
>“What Iran has to do is to liberate immediately all
the soldiers,” Javier Solana told reporters. “We want
to have good relations with Iran, and this does not
help.”
>On Wednesday, it appeared the crisis was easing.
>Mottaki said Wednesday that if the alleged entry into
Iranian waters proved to have been a mistake “this can
be solved. But they have to show that it was a
mistake. That will help us to end this issue.”
>“Admitting the mistake will facilitate a solution to
the problem,” he said.
>Mottaki said Iran had Global Positioning System
devices from the seized British boats that showed they
were in Iranian territory.
meanwhile in the political arena misinformation reigns
for example
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/content/view/1080/81/
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