what about those Royal Marines who raised their hands pitifully in the Chott El Arab in 2004, and then sold their stories to tabloïds ?
You'r getting your stories mixed up Reinhardt, the Story telling to the Tabloids was the HMS Cornwall incident in 2007. 2SL dropped the ball massive on that one (and it was two Sailors who sold their stories, none of the Bootnecks). The 2004 incident happened because the bootnecks could have been in Iranian waters. The two incidents have something in common, The British were not fighting Iran at the time and had no intention of starting a shooting war.