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Originally Posted by King
If it was you wouldn't you tell them whatever they wanted to hear to get home and avoid spending the rest of your life in an Iranian prison? I'm not saying that they definetly weren't in Iranian waters, I don't know, but their confessions aren't just not "definite proof", they're no proof at all.
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If the sailors go back on their word then I will admit I am wrong (even though that isn't "definite proof" either).
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Originally Posted by cyclefrance
Let's not forget that GPS receivers are only as good as the way they are set up. I use a Garmin etrek when cycling (similar to the one displayed in the newspapers showing the claimed coordinates for this fiasco), and had to reset the reference co-ordinates as I would otherwise be directed about 10 metres left of the road I was on - which could be quite critical if it ran alongside a railway line.
So, just maybe (and I do mean maybe), the Iranians hadn't set up their GPS properly - result being that the co-ordinates might say 'this is Iran', but the reality could easily be 'this is Iraq'.
Could this actually happen...?
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So only Iran could have faulty GPS systems? And, yes, it is a good possiblity that either or both of them had faulty or tampered GPS systems.
I don't trust either country when it comes to this.
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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
So you buy the Iranian version!
You have to be kidding me...
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Wasn't the British with Bush on the "Iraq has WMDs, have ties to Al-Qaeda, and all of that other bull.
Neither of them are trustworthy and you can't blindly believe any side.