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Atlanta (MyFox) April 9 – Britain’s MOD has banned all military service members from talking to the media in return for payment, a day after it said the 15 marines and sailors who were held captive in Iran could sell their stories.
Defense Secretary Des Browne issued a statement saying the navy faced a “very tough call” over its initial decision to allow the payments. The new ban will not affect any of the 15 service members held captive in Iran who already given accounts, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.
In one of the first accounts, Faye Turney, the sole woman in the detained crew, said that she “felt like a traitor” for agreeing to her captors’ demands to appear on Iranian TV and that she believed they had measured her for a coffin.
British patrol boat minutes before Iranian attack.
The Sun newspaper also reported that Turney, 25, was told by her captors that her 14 male colleagues had been released while she alone was being held.
The financial arrangements for Turney and Batchelor were not officially disclosed, but Turney said the offer she accepted was not the largest she had been offered. There were reports that Turney had accepted over $200,000 to tell her story to the Sun and Britain’s ITV News.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
