From: hernlem@chess.ncsu.edu (Brad Hernlem)
Subject: Re: News that _I_ missed
Reply-To: hernlem@chess.ncsu.edu (Brad Hernlem)
Organization: NCSU Chem Eng
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In article <C6vExt.Lxn@bony1.bony.com>, jake@bony1.bony.com (Jake Livni) writes:

|> In article <1993May7.175730.12246@ncsu.edu> hernlem@chess.ncsu.edu (Brad Hernlem) writes:
|> >In article <39298@optima.cs.arizona.edu>, bakken@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken) writes:
|> >|> In article <C6MM8A.5KB@bony1.bony.com> jake@bony1.bony.com (Jake Livni) writes:
|> 
|> >|> >In the NY Times, on Sunday, May 2, in an article on Somalia, a
|> >|> >reporter writes:
|> >|> >
|> >|> >  " [...] But last year, Iran quietly took over four islands belonging
|> >|> >  to the United Arab Emirates and deported their people, with hardly a
|> >|> >  protest from the United States. [...]"
|> >|> >
|> >|> >Does anyone know what this is referring to?  I seem to have missed it.
|> >|> >(Spiked, no doubt. :-)
|> 
|> >|> There was something in the NYT and other sources about this for a few
|> >|> days.  It is an ongoing border disupute, and when the Iranians kicked
|> >|> out the UAE people it was briefly reported (this was many moons ago).
|> >|> I don't recall reading of any public US comment; if it were a strong
|> >|> protest I probably would have seen it.
|> 
|> >Those islands would be Abu Musa, and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs, I presume.
|> >I don't know about a fourth. The latter two islands belong to Iran and so
|> 
|> According to the NY Times, the 4 islands "belong[] to the United Arab
|> Emirates." 

|> Jake Livni  

The NY Times is in error. This is not simply my opinion; even the Arab sources
that I use do not make this claim. This, of course, is assuming that the NY
Times was refering to the islands that I named above. Of those islands, only
Abu Musa has been in dispute and Iranian occupation of that island predates
the existence of the UAE.

Brad Hernlem