Craig Murray, former head of the British Foreign Office’s Maritime Section and former ambassador to Uzbekistan further highlights the lack of an internationally recognized border in the region the British sailors were captured. This makes it impossible for either Britain or Iran to confidently claim that HMS Cornwall was or was not trespassing.
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A brief list of interesting news for the day:
Kora and USA’s new free trade deal > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6516923.stm
Mogadishu’s instability > http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2048343,00.html
On British prisoners in Iran: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2412764.ece
A resurgent Taliban > http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2412774.ece
US court won’t decide rights of Guantanamo prisoners > http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070402.wussupcourt0402/BNStory/International/home
From the Falklands war to Iraq > http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-falklands_malvinas/churchillism_4487.jsp
Violence up since troop surge in Iraq > http://www.juancole.com/2007_04_01_juanricole_archive.html
Al Qaeda’s new [...]
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