Freed Britons Fly HomeBritish Sailors, Marines Held By Iran Since March 23
POSTED: 1:21 am CDT April 5, 2007
UPDATED: 6:32 am CDT April 5, 2007
TEHRAN, Iran -- Fifteen British sailors and marines who'd been held captive in Iran are back on British soil. Their flight has landed at London's Heathrow Airport.
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The 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iranian forces on March 23 in disputed waters flew out of a Tehran airport early on Thursday morning aboard a commercial flight to London.
After nearly two tense weeks, they were suddenly freed Wednesday by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The British personnel arrived at Tehran's airport early Thursday in a convoy of sedans that drove directly to the presidential VIP section of the airport.
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