Iran Reportedly Charges 3 Detained American Hikers With Espionage

Fox News ^ | November 09, 2009 | Fox News

[Scanian]

Three American hikers who have been detained in Iran after crossing into the country from Iraq have been charged with espionage, according to reports by Iran's State News Agency.

Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, have been detained in Iran since July 31. Their families say they entered the Islamic Republic accidentally while hiking in a scenic area of northern Iraq.

The families, who have had no contact with the detainees, released videos in October that showed them dancing and singing before they were captured by Iranian authorities.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A "scenic part of northern Iraq" would certainly be my first choice of a place to take a hike.

[Red Badger]

1979 Deja vu...............

[cripplecreek]

What kind of idiot hikes in that part of the world.

[Scanian]

Indeed. Possibly an Iranian crisis for Zippy a la Peanut Boy.

Although Obama is much more extreme, the parallels with Carter are pretty striking. Hopefully, Hussein is on a similar path to political oblivion.

[Thunder90]

These three are left-winged lunatics from Berkeley. They have no love loss for America.

[Vaquero]

What kind of idiot hikes in that part of the world.

BINGO...either Idiots....or someone looking for the trouble that they inevitably found.....

[Celerity]

those with western ideas will never tread safely in muslim territories. because of islam’s hatred for even those with slightly different ideas or values, iraq and other countries will never be fully “saved”, or fully open for tourism and industry.

it is by islam’s own folly that they are global failures.

normally i wouldn’t blame religion for national conflicts or border issues, but it is important to realise the islam dissolves all national identity.

[gimme1ibertee]

Here's a tip:
the next time you get a hankering to visit a region of the world where westerners are reviled,hated and generally considered the enemy,just get a picture book out and look at it.
Idiots.

[Huebolt]

Hey! Looks like an ACT OF WAR! It's a perfect excuse

TO BOMB THEM BACK TO THE STONE AGE ! ! !

The stone-age is, of course, a great advancement over the current state of affairs there.

[dfwgator]

I sense another setup like those two so-called “journalists” that got captured in North Korea.

[NativeNewYorker]

I sense another setup like those two so-called “journalists” that got captured in North Korea.

Bingo.

[cripplecreek]

I remember back during round one with Saddam Hussein, I read about a mother who took her children to Iraq to teach them about the horrors of war.

[Andonius_99]

TO BOMB THEM BACK FORWARD TO THE STONE AGE ! ! !

There, fixed it...

[org.whodat]

IF you go looking for trouble and you find it, don't cry on my shoulder.

[JenB987]

Unfortunately for them, Iran doesn’t care what they love or believe. By being American, they are by default the enemy.

That’s what goes over the heads of these lefty idiots.

[Scythian]

Okay, sometimes people do stupid things, hiking in Iraq, come on man that’s a deathwish ...

[FourPeas]

The stone-age is, of course, a great advancement over the current state of affairs there.

Huh? In what way?

[Joann37]

These three seem even more dense than previous vacationer “hostages”, since they should know better by now since countries hostile to the U.S. are increasingly taking our citizens and trying them for various “crimes”.

I am certainly not the adventurous type, but I think the only foreign country I’d feel safe going to at this point would be Canada. And I’m not even sure about that!

[stuartcr]

American hikers that entered the Islamic Republic accidentally while hiking in a scenic area of northern Iraq.!!??? Right

[Col Frank Slade]

Maybe they were on a Kurdish skull hunt.

[FourPeas]

They guys picked a very bad time to get caught in Iran. With the on-going protests over the last presidential election, the government will use anything they can get to focus attention on something else.

So, what will Pres Obama give, promise, and/or apologize for this time?

[stuartcr]

Flintstone mobiles and brontosaurus cranes??

[FourPeas]

LOL! You’re kidding....right?

[demshateGod]

These were bored rich kids and it really is scenic up there. They’ve already been to every place you’d choose to go.

Iran will set them free “out of good will.” Or they will hang them and we’ll do nothing.

[clintonh8r]

They’ll plead to the lesser charge of “arrogant stupidity of the entitled class.”

[pepperdog]

If these people were actually hikers I have no sympathty, however; if they are actually spies I am sorry they got caught.

[Artemis Webb]

I have zero sympathy for these three. If they are going to be so totally ignorant of geopolitics they should stay home and play with their daddy’s money on the local party circuit.

[Artemis Webb]

"Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, have been detained in Iran since July 31. Their families say they entered the Islamic Republic accidentally while hiking in a scenic area of northern Iraq."

Another thing, I guarantee they had GPS units. The idea that they didn't know where they were is far fetched to the point of being laughable.

[Bronzy]

Those who believe in hope and change.

[popdonnelly]

Probably trying to make contact with like-minded anti-Americans.

When I was in college, we had one professor whose expertise was Marxist philosophy. He took a sabbatical to then-communist Poland. Apparently, he expressed himself heretically, because he wound up being arrested and jailed. I thought the irony was quite funny.

[angcat]

What kind of idiot hikes in that part of the world.

They sound like assholes to me. Idiot is too polite for them.

[blam]

I heard on the radio Saturday that Iran was an economic power the equal of the state of Alabama.(There are more people in Houston, Texas than the whole state of Alabama)

Why do we take any crap from these Islamic idiots?

[DollyCali]

YOU KNOW...IMH they are either guilty as hell(of something ) or stupid as hell.

There is a huge beautiful world out there. One does NOT need to be hiking in Iran, N. Korea, Pook-s-staon, Venezuala or other places where they really dont like we Americans.

[SkyPilot]

But will they be given free healthcare?

_{P.S. Will someone get grandma a new bra?}

[ConservativeMind]

These are all liberals.

I wouldn’t doubt that they see no problems with trying to compromise the US through hostage negotiations. Paging Jess Jackson!

What appears to be stupid is their key to fame and a chance to get the US to compromise on stated positions.

I say let the rot in Iran.

[SkyPilot]

What kind of idiot hikes in that part of the world.

Ahem! They are Morons. Idiots are retarded.

[demshateGod]

It’s not like they were hiking is Diyala. They were hiking in Kurdistan. Okay, so you wouldn’t do it, but you’re not a bored rich kid. I wouldn’t do it either but I can see the draw. All their friends go to the Alps and Nepal but how impressed their friends would be when they get back from Iraq!

[stuartcr]

Not at all.

[SkyPilot]

These three are left-winged lunatics from Berkeley. They have no love loss for America.

I was thinking of going on a camping trip to North Korea this spring.......

[JimRed]

What were they intending to smuggle? Can’t think of another reason for Americans to be in that God-forsaken location.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Are they volunteering for human shield duty at Busheher?

[FourPeas]

Are you speaking metaphorically? Iran is far from being a third world country. Their big cities are not unlike those in the USA.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

These were bored rich kids and it really is scenic up there.

Couldn't they think of something safer to do like jumping out of airplanes or something?

;^]

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

And they were certain that Liberals were LOVED all over the World! Why would they be held captive? They are so hip and Progressive!

And ObaMao shivers under his desk during his rare and short visits to the Oval Office. But mostly, he is only to be found out on the Golf Course, or out on some Million Dollar hot date with his Wife and entourage. Or, he is on some International Speaking engagement to impress the European Socialists.

In the mean time, Iran is about to announce a Nuke and a delivery system and Afghanistan/Pakistan is deteriorating by the minute.

[Scanian]

Wow, you took the words right out of my mouth!

I was scrolling down and thought, “she needs a hoist bra - bad!” Or a derrick.

[rawhide]

They are pawns in a larger game.

[Scanian]

But they are LIBERALS! From Berkeley! And libs are adored all over the world, aren’t they? Messengers of peace and acceptance, right?

They remind me of “Love Me, I’m a Liberal” by Phil Ochs. Of course, that was about phony libs but aren’t they all, really?

[soycd]

Meanwhile, we capture one of their jihadi here after he shoots
a few dozen Americans and make excuses for why he caused terror
in the name of their goat humping religion.

[soycd]

Their leaders and religious travesty are not even up to the stone age mentally.