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Flashpoint: DISPATCH -

A dispatch from Terri Judd, aboard
HMS Cornwall in the Persian Gulf:

*Iran kidnaps Marines at gunpoint*

I was accompanying a Royal Marine patrol as it cruised Iraqi waters looking for suicide bombers trying to attack the two oil platforms that export 90 per cent of the country's oil. The patrol was also hunting smugglers bringing arms and contraband into the country...

:: UK Independent ::

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