The fliers are ultimately told there are no friendly forces in the area - although the ground controller admits he does not know as much about the situation as he would like, and at least one pilot spots orange panels on the British forces which should identify them as friendly.
Crouch has now scored 18 goals in 35 England appearances and, although he said he did not expect to start in England's next game against Brazil in a friendly, he hopes to have given Capello a selection dilemma.
Baroness Neville-Jones said some of the cyber crime activity was "state-sponsored" but although the government had the ability to strike back it was "anxious not to get into a barney with friendly countries" over the issue.
Although these projects have arisen at the invitation of friendly leaders of the respective governments, Thaksin said his firm was not sharing investment stakes at this point.