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Iran Holds American Hikers
Notice the quote from the Iraqi soldiers. I would think the Americans also had the same thought.
A senior security official in the Iraqi city of Suleymaniyeh, Qadr Hamajan, told Reuters news agency that the three US nationals and a fourth man arrived there on Wednesday.
He said three of them travelled the following day to a the tourist resort of Ahmad Awa near the Iranian border. They went out hiking near Halabja.
The fourth had been taken ill and stayed behind in a hotel in Suleymaniyeh.
“They phoned their friend … and told him ‘we are in trouble and are being held by soldiers who are not speaking Kurdish or Arabic’,” Mr Hamajan said.
An official in the region told the BBC that the Iraqi border guards saw three Americans with big backpacks crossing the border, but they did not stop them because they thought Americans were allowed to go anywhere.
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carly, how do you know what they were told? you don’t. it’s difficult to form any kind of opinion when you have next to no facts about the matter. please be responsible and refrain from contributing to the sea of conjecture around this *still very delicate* issue.
What were they thinking? they were warned not to go. There is an interesting related post at http://iamsoannoyed.com/?page_id=588