[cmsgop]

Cool! wish I was there handing out ammo

[Dallas59]

Attacked?....not wiped out?

[operation clinton cleanup]

British troops arrived near the compound and within 20 minutes began to shoot in various directions.

Umm... are they sure they were not lighting off firecrackers?

[Shots]

The media in Iran is controlled by their leaders they are just trying to make it look worse

[Cheburashka]

Of course the Brits haven't attacked the Iranian consulate.

But don't kid yourself the Iranians will claim an attack on their consulate to justify the sacking of the British embassy in Tehran. Watch for it, it's coming.

[Izzy Dunne]

They were in Iraqi waters.

[tet68]

Interesting development. There seems to be a need for the Mullahs to ratchet this even higher, probably internal polling shows growing support. They will most likely continue to push the boundry but it might just blow up in their faces, one can only hope.

[sono]

In the film "Amistad," the British commander sent word to then President Van Buren that he was right, the slave fortress in Sierra Leone, in fact did not exist. The film showed an intense bombardment of same underway. I suggest that, rather than an Iranian consulate in Basra, the British guns be turned on Iran refining capacity on Kharg Island.

[NonValueAdded]

Shoot in various directions? Like they didn't aim or something? Maybe it makes more sense in Farsi.

[HardStarboard]

>>>British troops arrived near the compound and within 20 minutes began to shoot in various directions.<<<

Iraqis maybe, but not Brit Commando or SAS - they know what direction to shoot...and generally hit it!

If the Brits want to get their troops back....just start lighting off an Iranian gasoline or oil storage tank, or two, every day until they appear.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I guess the fact that the Iranian state media claims Iran has an outpost in Iraq, dispels this myth that the Iranians aren't involved in Iraq.

[cookcounty]

The guy is coming up with phoney stories just like Hitler in 1939. He's definitely trying to provoke something or manufacture excuses for something........but what?

[yankeedame]

"...saying that at approximately 10 a.m. local time British troops arrived near the compound and within 20 minutes saying that at approximately 10 a.m. local time British troops arrived near the compound and within 20 minutes began to shoot in various directions."

What? The Brits didn't come in with guns a-blazing? They arrived about 10 a.m. and then spent 20 minutes getting things set up before they attacked? Shades of 19th century British Raj. And what were the Iranians doing in those 20 minutes? Just watching them, fumbling around for their pants, finishing their mid-morning tea, what?

And then "...[the British] began to shoot in various directions" sort of like when you had a machine gun to a four year old?

[yldstrk]

I hope they did.

[Rembrandt]

And in other news, Iran has just reported that its easternmost military garrison has been attacked by Greenland, those varlets!!

[daybreakcoming]

Mohammad-Reza Nasser-Baghban, Iran’s Consul-General in Basra, was quoted as saying that at approximately 10 a.m. local time British troops arrived near the compound and within 20 minutes began to shoot in various directions.

Sounds like Bahgdad Bob has a new gig - alias Bob Bagban. This could be funny if it were not so series.