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Retarded Hikers Arrested in Iran
Metzger Meister
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BBC News wrote:Three Americans arrested after apparently straying into Iran are being questioned by police, Iranian state television has reported.
"We don't know whether they are tourists or not. We are questioning them," said a local security official.
Iranian officials have accused the three of ignoring warnings from border guards and crossing over from Iraq's Kurdish region on Friday.
The frontier between Iran and Iraq in the region is said to be poorly marked.
Iraj Hassanzadeh, the deputy governor of Iran's Kurdistan province, told Iran's Fars news agency the trio were arrested on the Malakh-Khor border, near the town of Marivan, but that their identities were not yet known.
"Anyone who seeks to illegally enter the country from the Kurdistan border will be arrested," he said.
'Gifted'
The detained Americans have been named by relatives as Shane Bauer, a Middle East-based freelance journalist from Minnesota, his girlfriend, Sarah Shourd, and Joshua Fattal from Pennsylvania, whose father is Iraqi.
All three are reported to be experienced travellers
Mr Bauer, an Arabic speaker, had been studying the Middle East and planned to report on forthcoming Kurdish elections in Iraq for the California-based New America Media (NAM), said the group's executive director, Sandy Close.
Ms Close said Mr Bauer was a "gifted young correspondent" and had not had any plans to cross into Iran.
"How he'd gone into the hills, how he wound up crossing the border I have no idea, but never in the year we've been in correspondence has he indicated any interest in covering Iran," she told the Associated Press, adding that Mr Bauer did not speak Farsi.
"It's unthinkable to me that he would have just simply decided on some crash adventure," she said.
Mr Fattal's mother, Laura, told CNN she and her husband were "eager for the best welfare and conditions" for their son and his companions.
On Monday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was "concerned" and appealed for their safe return.
The BBC's Jon Donnison in Washington says the detentions are possibly the last thing the US government wants given how strained relations already are by the dispute over Iran's nuclear ambitions and its recent presidential election.
Hey, retards, shocking update: maybe hiking in the mountains on the border, WHERE YOU WERE TOLD BY HOTEL EMPLOYEES NOT TO GO, was a stupid fucking idea you arrogant fucking hippies. Get a real job, goddamn.
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What, the fucking pacific northwest or Appalachian trail or the Canadian cascade range or whatever the fuck isn't good enough? The prospect of being lined up against a wall and shot shortly after being gang-raped is exciting or some shit?
Not unless someone snuck a snuke up her snizz.
The loose women... the cigars... the flippant attitude... IT ALL MAKES SENSE!
A mission perfectly suited to Bill's unique talents
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Edit: Yea, they all went to UC-Berkeley. Not as bad as UC-Santa Cruz, but close enough.
Steam
the bill clinton episode of Family Guy was actually pretty great.
There's a good chance those reporters were on the Chinese side of the border when they were arrested.
It's really gotta suck for him, right now
Economic collapse, reporters hostage in North Korea, Iran eating itself, Somali pirates all up in our grill, plus healthcare reform
I don't think a President has had to deal with so much bullshit in his first year in my lifetime
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Steam
They were along the border, so you may be right. But the point is, you aren't supposed to be over by the border. At least they're smarter than the damn hikers. And what cracks me up is the people arrested in Iran were supposed to be expert hikers. Hahahaha, if they're "experts" then why are they in Iranian jail right now?
Steam
I dunno. It seems like these kids represent everything that's wrong with the fucking young people of this country. They feel like, despite warnings from people more knowledgeable than they are, that they can go wherever they want with no repercussions! Over-educated, young activists who go to obviously unstable regions so they can say they're well-traveled and be impressive to their retarded white-kid-with-dreadlocks friends.
Also there's been some personal drama lately with me and I'm just in a foul mood, don't mind me.
But I'll cut you slack because of the drama. Hope things get better for ya dude.
Steam
Thanks dru.
edit: Also, I don't really have a problem with college education or traveling (in fact i think travel is good) but these kids are obviously just adventuring to dangerous parts of the world without really examining the potential consequences, and that is arrogant beyond belief.
They may not be the brightest of individuals but should we really condemn civilians to prison in either of the most oppressive regimes on earth if there's a chance they didn't actually violate their laws? You're being awfully thick-headed.
Man, I never found out how that whole thing ended with Ross Perot's A-Team.
Jesse Ventura looks a lot like Ben Franklin now.
I know, and I'm sorry for that. It's just that whenever I read about stuff like this, I automatically think that the persons in jail, or held hostage, were being idiots and got what they deserved. I read about idiotic things happening so much in the news, I automatically think that whenever someone got arrested over by, or crossing, a border, they were trying to see how much they could press their luck.
Steam
Fun fact: Ben Franklin totally suplexed Thomas Jefferson through a table once
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"hey guys, let's go hiking close to, but not over, the unmarked rural border with Iran with our journalist friend"
Absolutely nothing bad could come from that. Nothing at all.
Even thinking about what the fuck they were doing for two seconds leads you to either they are A: retarded, B: planning to sneak into Iran (which also falls under the purview of A), or C: Genuinely lost, which goes against the concept of experienced hikers. Also, if I was planning on hiking in that area, knowing full well that getting lost would lead to a major shitstorm, I'd check my fucking maps.
Edit: Which is not to say the punishment or their treatment is fair, but really - it's hardly a surprise what has happened and you really do have to think that they had some ulterior motive here.
You kidding? I broke my arm twice and foot once doing idiotic things. Go ahead and laugh about it, I couldn't stop laughing when it happened.
Steam
but try again
gotta deal with you people every day
Steam
Steam
the second one in this clip, from about 1:10
showing just how easy it is to get lost over border lines
assuming you got any business being in the area to begin with
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fazIXDY1Ixc&feature=channel