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Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

I would expect that as political prisoners (essentially), these two would be kept in isolation.

johnslat · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:01 pm Post subject:

Dear Guy,

So maybe they tortured and sodomized each other?

Regards,
John

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Dear John,

You sir have the makings of a fine publisher for this pair.

johnslat · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:55 pm Post subject:

Dear Guy,

The book's just the start. Wait until you see the movie and the action figures.

Regards,
John

Isla Guapa · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:14 pm Post subject:

johnslat · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 2:52 am Post subject:

Dear Isla Guapa,

Well, let's put it this way. They'll be the first XXX-rated action figures. They should sell like hotcakes.

Regards,
John

Isla Guapa · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 3:14 am Post subject:

Captain_Fil · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:55 am Post subject:

Definitely in San Francisco and Berkeley.

Mr. Green

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

What sort of screwball would go hiking on the Iraq-Iran bordder and stray "by accident" into Iran ?

Don't they have places to do mountain walking in God's Own Country ?

Captain_Fil · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:09 pm Post subject:

johnslat · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 12:52 pm Post subject:

"(AP) TEHRAN, Iran � A bail-for-freedom deal for two Americans jailed as spies in Iran hit a snag Sunday because a judge whose signature is needed on the bail papers was on vacation, the prisoners' lawyer said, dashing hopes for their immediate release.
The attorney, Masoud Shafiei, said he could not complete the paperwork on the $1 million bail deal because a second judge who must sign the documents is on vacation until Tuesday. One judge already signed the papers Saturday.

"I have no choice but to wait until Tuesday," Shafiei told The Associated Press.

Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, both 29 years old, have been jailed for more than two years in a case that has deepened the mistrust between Iran and the United States.

They were detained along the Iran-Iraq border in July 2009 with their friend Sarah Shourd. She was released last September with mediation by the Gulf nation of Oman after $500,000 was paid.

The men were convicted of spying for the United States and illegally entering Iran and were each sentenced last month to eight years in prison. They denied the charges and appealed the verdicts, opening the way for the possible deal to free them in exchange for $500,000 bail each.

They say they were just hiking in Iraq's scenic north and may have mistakenly crossed an unmarked border with Iran.

Iran's foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, said Saturday the courts are willing to commute the Americans' sentences in the "near future" as a gesture of Islamic mercy, but did not say when the pair could be released."

Hmm, a "snag" in the Middle East. How unusual Very Happy

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/18/501364/main20107847.shtml

choudoufu · Joined: 25 May 2010 Posts: 3325 Location: Mao-berry, PRC

only a coincidence.....

"...11 January 2007 when the US military raided the Iranian Liaison Office (which was in the process of becoming accredited as an officially recognized consulate)[1] in Arbil, Iraq...capturing five mid-level diplomats ...On July 9, 2009, US authorities released the five diplomats....after more than two and a half years imprisonment..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._raid_on_the_Iranian_Liaison_Office_in_Arbil

sodomy? torture? nekkid pyramids?

Captain_Fil · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 6:07 pm Post subject:

nomad soul · Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world

From CNN: Press TV's Website reported that "Branch 36 of Tehran's Appeals Court has agreed to commuted the detention sentences of the two US nationals to release on a bail of USD500,000." (End of statement)

They've been turned over to the custody of Oman. They'll most likely hit the talkshow circuit with their side of the story once they've mentally and physically recuperated from their incarceration and have been questioned by some US govt entity.

johnslat · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:13 pm Post subject:

Here's a link to the story:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/21/iran-hikers-release_n_973284.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

Bauer's a "freelance journalist" - which kind of makes me wonder. Wink

He also proposed to Sarah Shourd when they were in prison.

Can you say - BIG book/movie deal? Set for life. Very Happy

Regards,
John