"OK, that established, now, heres the idea, P.O.W´s, that meaning "PRISONERS OF WAR" can only be held and detained for the duration of any WAR. P.O.W´s can only be members of bonafide military organisations, otherwise they have to be tried and detained, executed, or released. It is also worth pointing out that any P.O.W held, has to be treated in accordance to the Geneva Convention, thus making it illegal to parade captured persons as some kind of trophy."

Well, you can thank the Americans for leveling what (if any) moral high ground they held before this entire farce started. It was they who designated people as 'Enemy Combatants' to circumvent the Geneva Convention and violate their human rights. They are quite happy to torture individuals in secret CIA facilities, parade them on the TV (as they did with Saddam) and hold them without trial or access to any NGO's or legal aid. Blair is party to these outrages, complicit in the US programme of detention and torture and so has no moral integrity left - this is why the Iranians can get away with kidnapping these servicemen/woman. This is why the wider Arab world supports them, and why they will not come out of this looking like the villans.

Watching B.Lair bluster and spew forth his self-righteous crap is quite pathetic, and his toady Beckett seems unable to grasp the internal schisms that rent Iranian politics - she is most probably talking to someone who doesn't even know where the hostages are being held. The old colonial power is reaping what it sowed so many years ago, as well as the rewards of a close partnership with the Empire of the USA - and it's not pretty to watch.

"The Brits created an international incident as an excuse to invade Iran"

You don't actually believe this do you Dianavan? What a laugh! What are they going to invade with, the W.I.? They don't have enough troops to fight in Afghanistan, let alone invade a country that will put up a fight.

The Loch Ness Monster, by the way, is in all probability a giant eel. This is true.