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Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:36 pm**

Article.

We might have had another chain about these guys elsewhere, but I'm not looking for it.

Anyway, I've heard from a few places that these guys were very, very liberal democrats. After two years in Iranian prisons do you think they still are?

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:21 pm**

Were they reporters from Al Gore's "Current" tv station?

Posted: **Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:41 am**

No. They were "arrested" for crossing the border into Iran (note that they were "arrested" in Iraq - not Iran - by guards who were basically an unofficial invasion force at that point), then "convicted" in a ridiculous sham of a trial and held hostage until someone paid just under a million dollars to have them released.

Basically, Iran as a nation is now kidnapping American tourists from Iraq in order to make some money on the ransom.

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