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Just where were those 15 brits?

brian | 04.04.2007 03:32 | Anti-militarism

British MOD Issued Two Different Coordinates for the Gulf Incident

Just where were those 15 brits?
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British MOD Issued Two Different Coordinates for the Gulf Incident

The UK Ministry of Defence website still contains their widely quoted press release, issued on the 28th March, which attempts to clearly establish that the arrest of the fifteen British sailors and marines by Iran took place in Iraqi waters.

Unfortunately for the MOD, it appears that they have used two different sets of position coordinates to fix the site of the incident. One of these coordinates is quoted in the text (para 4), another is pictured in their photograph taken from a helicoptor. Furthermore, the data was presented in the same press briefing. Assuming that both sets of data were expressed using the same coordinate system this is, at the least, an embarrassing over sight.

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 http://craigmurrayfriends.blogspot.com/2007/04/british-mod-issued-two-different.html

brian

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  1. Craig Murray has done a great job — surfer