Thanks, that makes more sense. The article gave a different impression: > The British government threatened to freeze Icelander savings and checking accounts.

Thanks, that makes more sense. The article gave a different impression: > The British government threatened to freeze Icelander savings and checking accounts. Unless I'm totally daft, this is saying the British government was threatening to freeze UK-based bank accounts of individual Icelanders. Chalk up another factual inaccuracy. I'm not well versed in this stuff, so it's a really bad sign when I can stumble over errors and inaccuracies in damn near every other paragraph.