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British Sailors Come Home

By Sam Gale Rosen, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 5, 2007 7:43 AM CDT

(Newser) – The fifteen British sailors captured by Iran are back in the UK. As soon as the British Airways jet touched down as Heathrow, Blair traded his measured diplomatic tone for harsher words, warning the "elements of the Iranian regime" were still arming insurgents inside... Read full story »

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