ATLANTA (MaraviPost): Pictures reportedly show the US Navy personnel detained by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. Iran and America exchanged rare words of conciliation on Wednesday as the Revolutionary Guard Corps released 10 US sailors who had entered sensitive waters in the Gulf.
The Pictures are seen in the US as humiliation from Iran. Americans are so angry some have tried to invoke the Geneva treatment of prisoners of war, however they have been reminded that they are not at war with Iran.
A new crisis had seemed possible on Tuesday when the crews of two US Navy patrol boats fell into Iranian hands. Instead, Iran and America moved quickly to defuse the situation – although Tehran could not resist humiliating its captives by broadcasting pictures of the US personnel kneeling and with their hands in their heads
One US sailor was shown apparently voicing words of contrition. “It was a mistake that was our fault and we apologise for our mistake,” he said.
But the nine men and one woman were released after one night in captivity on Farsi, an Iranian island in the Gulf. John Kerry, the US secretary of state, responded by expressing his “gratitude”, although the State Department adamantly denied Iran’s claim that he had also apologised.
GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz said the detention of the sailor’s was a “manifestation of the weakness of Obama’s foreign policy.”
“Our enemies don’t fear us,” Cruz said before adding that his prayers were with the sailors and their families.
“When you follow the path of appeasement, it only emboldens the bad actors, and our prayers are that these sailors are released and they’re released quickly,” Cruz concluded.
Republican presidential contender Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said the action was “provocative.”
“No one should be surprised by Iran’s behavior today,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said, correctly, since seizing other countries’ military ships in one’s territorial waters is entirely unsurprising. “President Obama should communicate to the ayatollahs that unless they immediately release our sailors and boats, the United States will nullify the Iran nuclear deal and take all necessary measures to recover the service members they’ve apprehended.”
Gaddaffi
As family days out, it must rank as one of the more bizarre and macabre. The Parading of the dead body of Gaddaffi in the streets of Libya.
Men, women and children lined-up in the hot sunshine for a chance to view the corpse of Muammar Gaddafi, the dead Libyan dictator and self-styled King of Kings.
In a refrigerated store room at a shopping centre – normally used to store chickens before being stacked on the shelves – the chance to glimpse the decaying corpse of Gaddafi was the sole attraction in Misrata, once Libya’s richest city and now reduced to rubble after the war.
Government fighters hauled him onto the bonnet of a Toyota pick-up truck with the intention, one of them said, of getting him through the crowd of fellow fighters and to an ambulance parked about 500 metres away.
Gaddafi can be heard in one video saying ‘God forbids this’ several times as slaps from the crowd rain down on his head.
Misrata, one of the heartlands of the anti-Gaddafi rebellion, suffered months of siege and artillery bombardment at the hands of his forces.
Another video shows Gaddafi being heaved off the bonnet of the truck and dragged towards a car, then pulled down by his hair.
But another man in the crowd lets out a high-pitched hysterical scream. Gaddafi then goes out of view and gunshots ring out.
Another video resumes moments later that shows Gaddafi dead on the ground. He has clearly been killed.
The light conditions are the same and the same frenzied atmosphere can be heard. The same footwear seen in the first recording are also in the second.
