The hikers' families claim they just inadvertently strayed across the border. I can see how this might happen, as hikers NEVER use GPS thingies, and instead rely on dead reckoning with a map and compass to get around in a life-stealing desert along a border with a country run by an international madman of savagery. Of course, it could be they couldn't get a decent satellite signal, after all there are only like 40 various GPS satellites available over that region (and few, if any, are scrambled, thanks to President Clinton.)
I don't want these three back. A cool half-million isn't a ransom, it's a huge tax on their families--a tax on them for raising, and then unleashing on the world, three people who are so colossally stupid that they deserve to languish in an Iranian prison.
Pointed to by RNS
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