Bayonet charge in Iraq

imported_Fluffy_Bunny · **Bayonet charge in Iraq -** 05-18-2004, 09:55 PM

I wager that being in a bayonet fight with these chaps isn't a nice way to go.

[img]http://www.barkingshins.com/am/real/argyll01.jpg[/img]

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.

Details of the bloody clashes emerged amid reports that defence chiefs were privately discussing "strategic failure" in the conflict - and that MPs were trying to force a new Commons vote on the situation in Iraq.

Are these guys related to Nintys regiment?

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/sc ... =559592004

Unknown_Sniper · 05-18-2004, 10:02 PM

hard core, hard fucking core.

Short Hand · 05-18-2004, 10:05 PM

Short Hand: stabs unknown sniper in the eye with bayonet"

-Then Yells out to him

"Is That fucking hardcore enough for you"

05-18-2004, 10:10 PM

wow ed:

I wonder if they had the bagpiper advancing with the men and playing biggrin:

Unknown_Sniper · 05-18-2004, 10:11 PM

bitch take that bayonette out of my eye and suck my cock. then stab yourself in the nuts.

imported_Fluffy_Bunny · 05-18-2004, 10:12 PM

[quote="Sgt Stryker":d7e94]wow ed:

I wonder if they had the bagpiper advancing with the men and playing biggrin:[/quote:d7e94]

You can bet on it, just like in the longest day rock:

Unknown_Sniper · 05-18-2004, 10:15 PM

hte bagpipers are the best, and bravest. They play music right in oncoming fire and they jsut keep on playing.

Madmartagen · 05-18-2004, 10:26 PM

Thats good shit, only 3 wounded and you got to fight like hardcore badasses. GG beer:

imported_Fluffy_Bunny · 05-18-2004, 10:32 PM

[quote="Unknown_Sniper":85efd]hte bagpipers are the best, and bravest. They play music right in oncoming fire and they jsut keep on playing.[/quote:85efd]

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rock:

Coleman · 05-18-2004, 10:34 PM

[quote="Fluffy_Bunny":e1576][quote="Unknown_Sniper":e1576]hte bagpipers are the best, and bravest. They play music right in oncoming fire and they jsut keep on playing.[/quote:e1576]

[url="http://my.allofmp3.com/m3u.shtml?file=http%3A%2F%2F81.176.74.27%3A80%2Fg% 2Fgsv_tliwlm_srtsozmwvih%2Fhxlgozmw_gsv_yizev_%7E_ 8000%2F61874%2F16253683%2Fscotland_the_brave.prev. mp3"]http://my.allofmp3.com/m3u.shtml?file=h ... e.prev.mp3[/url]

rock:[/quote:e1576]three is a marching band in my area that has about 30 bagpipers along with the normal band oOo: . Kinda funny seeing a bunch of bagpipers at a Highschool football game.

Madmartagen · 05-18-2004, 10:35 PM

[quote="Fluffy_Bunny":c2c8e]
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rock:[/quote:c2c8e]
beer:

Short Hand · 05-18-2004, 10:37 PM

[quote="Unknown_Sniper":d3e3c]bitch take that bayonette out of my eye and suck my cock. then stab yourself in the nuts.[/quote:d3e3c]

Your dead already.

TonyMontana · 05-18-2004, 10:37 PM

blah kinda off topic, but kinda not...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... 0&ncid=716

this shit is never gonna end..

05-18-2004, 10:38 PM

[quote="Fluffy_Bunny":7d8be][quote="Unknown_Sniper":7d8be]hte bagpipers are the best, and bravest. They play music right in oncoming fire and they jsut keep on playing.[/quote:7d8be]

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rock:[/quote:7d8be]

interestingly enough I have the full thing on my hard drive, I was looking for Scotland the Brave when I was forming the 1st SSF (Devil's Brigade); the SSF never suceeded, but StB stayed biggrin:

Coleman · 05-18-2004, 10:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TonyMontana

blah kinda off topic, but kinda not...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... 0&ncid=716

this shit is never gonna end..

i agree with you. If I was an Iraqi citizen and was elected or appointed for a job in the newly forming government, I'd turn it down. I'd be afraid of some wacko trying to mix my liver with his C4. oOo: