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An event mentioned in this article is a April 30 selected anniversary

Perhaps this should be expanded and moved to "Iranian Embassy Seige". Operation Nimrod as I undestand it is only the military operation carried out by the SAS. There is a considerable amount of additional information which would be pertinant to an encyclopaedic article, and a great deal of wha is already included is outwith the operation itself.

I agree. Dunc_Harris|☺ 17:01, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- And i just moved it. I think its a lot better now. Dunc_Harris|☺ 21:42, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I think "sponsored by Saddam Hussein's Iraq," is less NPOV than "sponsored by Iraq,". What do you think? Should we change it back? Edward 15:47, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I think just 'Iraq' would be more NPOV. Possibly 'sponsored by the Iraqi Government'? (All truth be known, I'm not personally clear on the evidence of the connection).

- Why? Not everyone knows the history of Iraq and it is important to differentiate the Ba'athist Iraq from the current Iraq from whatever was before the Ba'athist regime. 88.105.246.110 21:16, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

- - Can anyone provide any evidence to support the "sponsored by Saddam Hussein's Iraq" claims?? 87.194.20.135 13:06, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

1 Dadgar
2 Parole for Fowzi Nejad
3 Copyvio
4 Rename
5 photos
6 Adding date, place to title

[edit] Dadgar

Who is this man? He's not identified by full name anywhere in the article, nor is it indicated that this is a code name. All it alludes to is the fact that he was there, probably as a hostage. Wally 22:12, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

He was a hostage. 88.105.246.110 21:16, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

I've added that he was a hostage in the last para, I know its already in the article elsewhere but I think it needs to be stated near the end also Murray.booth 08:50, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Parole for Fowzi Nejad

The article stated that Fowzi Nejad was to be eligible for parole in 2005. A quick Google search uncovered only articles looking towards 2005 considering his possible release. Does anyone know if Nejad's parole hearing took place in 2005 and if it did, what happened? --AStanhope 17:01, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to just re-iterate the point of Astanhope, but does anyone have any further information on Nejad's parole? It has been some time since any mention of it and there are no stories that I can find which state whether he is still in prison. --138.37.81.69 (talk) 13:13, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

According to this, Nejad is due to be released. This also states he may be given asylum.--Conjoiner (talk) 12:38, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio

I just searched the BBC's website for information about the Iranian Embassy Siege and found out that most of the text has been taken from the BBC's. It's nearly completly the same. The might by copyright trobles, but I do not know. Who knows some about this? Here's the link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2000/iranian_embassy_siege/default.stm --M9IN0G 09:53, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Bugger. It turns out that's been there for more than two years! I've had to take it out, but if anyone has the time to paraphrase the info and put it back in, that would be tremendous. Sadly, I don't. Henry ^Flower 20:27, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rename

Shouldn't this page be at Iranian Embassy siege? There is no reason for the capitalisation. —anskas 00:12, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] photos

a photo or two of the SAS' assault would be nice

a good one would be of the front of the building when the SAS operators used a frame charge on the embassy's windows

[edit] Adding date, place to title

Anyone object to changing the title to "1980 Iranian embassy siege in London", or something similar? This would keep the title parallel with the other titles for embassy attacks used on Wiki: List_of_attacks_on_diplomatic_missions MatthewVanitas (talk) 04:17, 3 June 2008 (UTC)