[news] Bungled U.S. Kidnapping Led to Hostage Taking

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

A failed US attempt to abduct two senior Iranian security officers on an official visit to northern Iraq was the starting pistol for a crisis that ten weeks later led to Iranians seizing 15 British sailors and marines...The abortive Arbil raid provoked a dangerous escalation in the confrontation between US and Iran which ultimately led to the capture of the 15 British sailors and marines.

  


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