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The Truth Will Set You Free
March 28, 2007

Brits in the Persian Gulf and a Doctored British Map?

By Barry Lando and Craig Murray

Former British Ambassador Craig Murray (http://www.craigmurray.co.uk)
is now challenging the legitimacy of the map just published by the
British government in the current dispute with Iran over those 15
captured British sailors and marines.

"Fake Maritime Boundaries".

I have been unpopular before, but the level of threats since I started
blogging on the captured marines has got a bit scary.

It is therefore with some trepidation that I feel obliged to point
this out.

"The British Government has published a map showing the coordinates of
the incident, well within an Iran/Iraq maritime border. The mainstream
media and even the blogosphere has bought this hook, line and sinker.

"But there are two colossal problems.

"A) The Iran/Iraq maritime boundary shown on the British government
map does not exist. It has been drawn up by the British Government.
Only Iraq and Iran can agree their bilateral boundary, and they never
have done this in the Persian Gulf, only inside the Arvand Rood
waterway because there it is the land border too. This published
boundary is a fake with no legal force.

"B) Accepting the British coordinates for the position of both HMS
Cornwall and the incident, both were closer to Iranian land than Iraqi
land. Go on, print out the map and measure it. Which underlines the
point that the British produced border is not a reliable one.

"None of which changes the fact that the Iranians, having made their
point, should have handed back the captives immediately. I pray they
do so before this thing spirals out of control. But by producing a
fake map of the Iran/Iraq boundary, notably unfavorable to Iran, we
can only harden the Iranian position".

When I spoke with the former Ambassador he told me how dumbfounded he
is by the way in which the mainstream media continues to treat this
dispute.

The BBC for instance has already interviewed a supposed expert
regarding the map, who vouched for its authenticity. But the point is,
as Craig Murray, points out, how can such a map exist if the subject
of boundaries has never been settled between Iraq and Iran? Turns out
the expert had been referred to the BBC by the British Ministry of
Defense--who also turned out the plan.

Sounds like the rerun of a bad movie we've already seen.

http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2007/03/fake_maritime_b.html
http://barrylando.com/?p=136
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/1054

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