Saddam Hussein is “alive and well” - or so says an agent selling what he purports is “forensic evidence” that the Iraqi dictator’s execution was faked. Phoenix-based David Hans Schmidt tells us he’s been hired by an unnamed “foreign head of state,” whose intelligence service believes Saddam “is living in a foreign country under an assumed name.”
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says 15 British naval personnel captured in the Gulf are free to leave.
He repeated Iran’s view that the British sailors and marines “invaded” Iranian waters, but said they were being released as a “gift” to Britain.
They are expected to be handed to the British embassy in Tehran on Thursday morning before flying home.
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United Nations, March 30: Deploring the detention of 15 British marines by Iran, the United Nations Security Council yesterday demanded their immediate release.
In a statement, the 15-member Council asserted that the marines were operating in Iraqi waters as a part of the United Nations-mandated multi-national force at the request of Baghdad.
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BRITAIN’S crisis with Iran deepened yesterday as Tony Blair warned Tehran it has only a few days to release 15 captured British sailors and marines, as a US commander in the Gulf criticised the British for not opening fire on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards who seized them.
British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett spoke by telephone yesterday with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and repeated that the British sailors and marines were operating in Iraqi waters as they searched for smugglers at sea.She asked that British diplomats be allowed to meet the captured sailors, and demanded their safe return. In Jerusalem, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also called for their release.
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The Iranian government is denouncing 300, the blockbuster film about the Battle of Thermopylae, citing it was created to spread lies in order to launch “cultural and psychological warfare” against Iranians. The New York Post reports:
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