Re: Bob DeAngelis having a few friends over?

last damn Sunday barbecue I have..

Bob Deangelis

PS that wouldn't have worried the Spaniards .. Worse things happen
everytime
an easy jet flight comes in..  ?=0)
The Spaniards would take a few paras in preference to English tourists
any
day.. much safer.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Don M" <dmaddox1@hot.rr.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 12:39 AM
Subject: Bob DeAngelis having a few friends over?

> Monday, February 18, 2002
>
>
> GIBRALTAR - The British military apologized Monday for invading Spain
over
> the weekend - by mistake.
>
>
> About 20 Royal Marines went slightly off course in an amphibious
exercise
> and stormed a Spanish beach Sunday morning near the British colony of
> Gibraltar, a British Defense Ministry spokesman said.
>
> Residents of the Spanish border town of La Linea watched in
astonishment
as
> the beach filled with combat-ready troops wielding mortar launchers
and SA
> 80 assault rifles, according to Spanish press reports, which said at
least
> 30 troops were involved.
>
> Spanish television station Telecinco showed footage of an advance team
in
> combat fatigues dashing through the surf to a beach several yards from
the
> border, with paratroopers dotting the sky in the background.
>
> Spain's Efe news agency said the soldiers left after several
Gibraltarian
> fishermen and local police officers told them they were on Spanish
soil.
>
> The accidental incursion came at a delicate time in negotiations
between
> Spain and Britain over the future of Gibraltar, where Britain
established
a
> military base in 1704.
>
> The 2.5-square-mile territory was formally ceded to Britain under the
Treaty
> of Utrecht in 1713. Gibraltar is an irritant to British-Spanish
relations
> and the two countries are trying to reach an agreement, that would
include
> the colony's internal self-governance, by summer.
>
> The spokesman, who could not be identified under Defense Ministry
rules,
> said the "regrettable and embarrassing" error lasted no more than five
> minutes.
>
> He said the mishap was likely caused by a map-reading error, although
> details of an investigation carried out on board the HMS Ocean
helicopter
> carrier, where the soldiers came from, were being kept secret.
>
> Local police spokesman David Iria said the mistake was understandable,
> because it is "difficult to know exactly where you are" on the poorly
marked
> coastline.
>
> The HMS Ocean, which had stopped at Gibraltar for maintenance, was
heading
> to the Indian Ocean to support military operations in Afghanistan, the
> spokesman said