Evidently Lucky It Didn't Come to a Real Blowup !

Apparently the world was very lucky (again) that one of the "bad guy nations" of the world didn't know, before releasing Her Majesty's Sailors, what one of the world's "good guy countries" was really up to.

SKY NEWS
In His Own Words
Updated: 17:22, Thursday April 05, 2007
Captain Chris Air of the Royal Marines revealed to Sky News that he and his colleagues had been gathering intelligence on the Iranians.
Here follows the full transcript of that interview.

'We Gathered Intelligence'
Updated: 22:05, Thursday April 05, 2007
The captain in charge of the 15 marines detained in Iran has said they were gathering intelligence on the Iranians.
Sky News went on patrol with Captain Chris Air and his team in Iraqi waters close to the area where they were arrested - just five days before the crisis began.