How to Bury That Iran Gaffe
Summary
The best way to cover up a catastrophic official blunder, as Tony Blair showed us after the 2001 foot and mouth disaster, is not to allow an independent inquiry but instead to stage a carefully- controlled "lessons learned'' exercise. The same technique will be used, it appears, to bury the serious questions arising from the way the Royal Navy exposed a boarding party to humiliating abduction by the Iranians.
One central point missed by almost everyone - despite the best efforts, since last Monday, of my colleague Richard North (see www.eureferendum.com) - is that Commodore Nick Lambert, the officer in overall charge, was not the captain of the frigate HMS Cornwall, as was generally reported. Since March 7 he has been commander of a Coalition naval task force, made up of 12 US, British, Australian and Iraqi naval units. These included a number of ships, such as two fast, heavily armed, shallow-draught US coastal patrol vessels, which would have been ideal to provide protective cover for the Navy's boarding exercise.See the full content of this document
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How to Bury That Iran Gaffe
Why did Commodore Lambert not make pr...
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