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Between the El Salvadorian Soldier & this there is hope for good 'ol hand to hand fighting.

Argylls fight hand to hand in Iraq
BRIAN BRADY
WESTMINSTER EDITOR


SCOTTISH troops fixed bayonets and fought hand to hand with a Shi’ite militia in southern Iraq in one of their fiercest clashes since the war was declared more than a year ago, it was reported last night.

Soldiers from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders mounted what were described as "classic infantry assaults" on firing and mortar positions held by more than 100 fighters loyal to the outlawed cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, according to military sources.

At least 20 men from al-Sadr’s army were believed killed in more than three hours of fighting - the highest toll reported in any single incident involving British forces in the past 12 months.

Nine fighters were captured and three British soldiers injured, none seriously.

"It was very bloody and it was difficult to count all their dead," one source was quoted as saying. "There were bodies floating in the river."

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were drawn into the fighting when soldiers in two Land-Rovers were ambushed on Friday afternoon about 15 miles east of the city of Amara. The soldiers escaped, only to be ambushed a second time by a larger group of militia, armed with machine-guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars.

Reinforcements were summoned from the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment at a base nearby. "There was some pretty fierce hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets fixed," the source added. "There were some classic assaults on mortar positions held by the al-Sadr forces."

Official spokesman Major Ian Clooney confirmed the Mehdi army "took a pretty heavy knocking", but refused to specify tactics. "This was certainly an intense engagement," he added.



"And those al-qaeda guys that did that shouldn't take any of the blame? Slap them on the wrists for doing that!" ---convo w/ my leftist douche brother.

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Makes a fella pround to be a Scot.

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier."

Kipling-

Ditto!

"The power to Destroy the planet, is insignifigant to the power of the Air Force----Mudd Vader

PLUS THEY DIDNT HAVE TO WEAR A MASK,HIDE BEHIND CHILDREN AND WOMEN,WAIT FOR THE ARAB TV STATIONS TO SHOW UP TO COVER THEM JUMPING UP AND DOWN BURNING TRUCKS .
GREAT JOB!

PRESS TO TEST

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