Iran Takes Navy Personnel Hostage, Nice Strategy Obama
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If Obama "did" this, then he also got bin Laden. Which was not a disaster.
pointing out hypocrisy is the ultimate drag
That's the problem with those damn cheap Navy boats, when one goes bad the other also goes bad.
Pentagon: 2 U.S. Navy Boats Held By Iran But Will Be Returned
WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran was holding 10 U.S. Navy sailors and their two small Navy boats after the boats had mechanical problems and drifted into Iranian waters, but American officials have received assurances from Tehran that they will be returned safely and promptly.
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told The Associated Press that the riverine boats were moving between Kuwait and Bahrain when the U.S. lost contact with them.
U.S. officials said that the incident happened near Farsi Island, situated in the Persian Gulf. They said that some type of mechanical trouble with one of the boats caused them to run aground and they were picked up by Iran. The sailors were in Iranian custody on Farsi Island at least for some time, but it's not certain where they are now.
The semi-official Iranian news agency, FARS, said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's navy has detained 10 foreign forces, believed to be Americans, and said the sailors were trespassing in Iranian waters.
"We have been in contact with Iran and have received assurances that the crew and the vessels will be returned promptly," Cook said.
both ships were due for routine maintenence to have their fuel filters replaced, but due to sequestration they had to make one more run. And wouldn't you know it, just when they got close to Iranian waters they both crapped out at exactly the same time. We haven't seen anything like this since a video sparked a riot in Libya.
Yeah, the intelligence community found bid Laden by conducting practices that Obama ended. What exactly did Obama do except sit in a corner and look scared. You leftwingers are something else.
So he didn't do this boat seizure, either.