Guard Led 3 Americans Across Iran Border, Released Hiker Says
NY Times / NEIL MacFARQUHARN
31-Oct-2010 (2 comments)

The three American hikers accused of espionage by Iran stepped off an unmarked dirt road — inadvertently crossing from Iraq into the Islamic republic — only because a border guard of unknown nationality gestured for them to approach, the lone hiker to be released said Sunday.

Sarah E. Shourd, a teacher freed in September after nearly 14 months in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, contacted The New York Times to give her fullest public account yet of the capture of the three in July 2009.

Ms. Shourd, 32, said she wanted to correct the gathering false impression, fueled by a classified United States military report made public last week by WikiLeaks, as well as earlier American and British news reports, that the hikers were detained inside Iraq and forced across the border. Her comments came just days before her two fellow hikers, her fiancé, Shane M. Bauer, and their friend Joshua F. Fattal, both 28, are scheduled to go on trial in Iran on Saturday.

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Fesenjoon

Not really

by Fesenjoon on Mon Nov 01, 2010 06:03 AM PDT

The hikers were in Iraqi territory, seized by Iranian guards. 

They are now being used as hostages for political bargaining chips. As expected.

 

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction" --Blaise Pascal


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yolanda

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by yolanda on Sun Oct 31, 2010 08:35 PM PDT

It sounds like the Iranian border guards facilitated, welcomed, invited, and lured the 3 hikers to cross over from Iraq to Iran.


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