Summary
"Lads, lads I think we're going to get executed," a voice said in the darkness, recalled one of the marines, Joe Tindell. After that, someone got sick, "and as far as I was concerned, he had just had his throat cut."
When confronted by the Iranians, "I explained we were conducting a routine operation, as allowed under a U.N. mandate, but when we tried to leave, they prevented us by blocking us in," Air explained in a prepared opening statement. "Some of the Iranian sailors were becoming deliberately aggressive and unstable. They rammed our boats and trained their heavy machine guns, RPGs (rocket propelled grenades) and weapons on us."We were interrogated most nights and presented with two options: If we admitted that we'd strayed, we'd be back on a plane to the U.K. pretty soon. If we didn't, we faced up to seven years in prison," he said. "We all at one time or another made a conscious decision to make a controlled release of non-operational information. We were kept in isolation until the last few nights, when we were allowed to get together for a few hours, in the full glare of the Iranian media ... But that was very much a set-up, very much a stunt for Iranian propaganda."See the full content of this document
Extract
Brit Sailors, Marines Feared the Worst
Captured military personnel treated harshly by Iranians
By John Ward AndersonLONDON -- Early during their two-week detention in Iran, a group of British sailors and marines were blindfolded, handcuffed behind their backs and lined up f...See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
