Well, something is afoot....because Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad abruptly canceled his planned trip to New York to address the U.N. Security Council.
A strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis recently joined a similar force in the Persian Gulf led by the carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
U.S. and British officials said a boarding party from the frigate HMS Cornwall was seized about during a routine inspection of a merchant ship inside Iraqi territorial waters near the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway.
The seizure of two Royal Navy inflatable boats took place just outside the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, a 125-mile channel dividing Iraq from Iran. Its name means Arab Coastline in Arabic, and Iranians call it Arvandrud - Persian for Arvand River. A 1975 treaty recognized the middle of the waterway as the border.
Iranians send arms to Iraqi extremists, including sophisticated roadside bombs. This week, two commanders of an Iraqi Shiite militia told The Associated Press in Baghdad that hundreds of Iraqi Shiites had crossed into Iran for training by the elite Quds force, a branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guard thought to have trained Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.
2007-03-23 17:08:05
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answered by Anonymous
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Maybe it was CIA operatives dressed ad Iran soldiers done on orders of Bush to get us and the Brits into a war with Iran before the end of his term in the White Hosue.
2007-03-23 16:30:28
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answered by barefoot_always 5
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If Ahmadinejad has his way, we are. He is highly unpopular with the general population right now and the only way he sees to hold onto his power it to turn their attention outside the country.
2007-03-23 16:18:49
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answered by kathy_is_a_nurse 7
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That would be highly unlikely.
2007-03-23 16:35:38
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answered by haring_michael 2
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I certainly hope so.
Iran needs its ***, handed to them.
2007-03-23 16:27:59
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answered by Anonymous
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This is all media trick created by Bush.......................
2007-03-23 19:44:59
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answered by ILSE 5
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