Dianavan, like yourself, i am no fan of Mr Blair, but i think you need to rethink your line in the hostage crisis, yes, there has been unfortunate mishappenings with individual behaviour in abhu Grahib. but, and this is the point, i am not aware of any conflict between the U.K and Iran. of all the unfortunate footage and pictures seen, i am not aware of any of them being of Iranian military personell. and you are right, Guantanamo bay is obviously no picnic, but i am not aware of any iranian military personell there either. this is a crisis between 2 bonafide military factors. this being the case, it is fair that the M.O.D and the British Government expect Iran to behave in a proffesional manner, not parade captured sailors and Marines to read manufactured transcripts to a tv camera. If it were Al Quaida who had kidnapped these people, then i would expect this kind of behaviour, but not from an apparently civilised country like Iran. I cant imagine that if the boot was on the other foot, Iranian soldiers/ sailors etc would have to read from manuscripts denouncing theyre government. Just my thoughts, but if Iran wants to step up to the line and show its military as unproffesional and amateurish, then lets hope that they never do get those nuclear weapons they are after. And, as i said before, i bet the M.O.D dont get the GPS equipment back.