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22:08 - Dude!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004223179,00.html
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I guess it's not just the El Salvadorans who are serious hardasses when outnumbered and out of ammo:
OUTNUMBERED British soldiers killed 35 Iraqi attackers in the Army’s first bayonet charge since the Falklands War 22 years ago.
The fearless Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders stormed rebel positions after being ambushed and pinned down.
Despite being outnumbered five to one, they suffered only three minor wounds in the hand-to-hand fighting near the city of Amara.
The battle erupted after Land Rovers carrying 20 Argylls came under attack on a highway.
After radioing for back-up, they fixed bayonets and charged at 100 rebels using tactics learned in drills.
When the fighting ended bodies lay all over the highway — and more were floating in a nearby river. Nine rebels were captured.
An Army spokesman said: “This was an intense engagement.”
The last bayonet charge was by the Scots Guards and the Paras against Argentinian positions.
William Wallace lives on, it seems.
What kind of media would we have to have for stories like this not to be trumpeted with pride, outside the Foxes and Suns of the spectrum?
(Don't answer that. Probably the same kind that would only print this story if it could follow it with a reminder that evil empires throughout history and fiction have always reported superhuman deeds with huge kill ratios like this to their bedazzled populaces.)
I guess we'd better keep looking for adjectives.
Via Emperor Misha I.
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Brian Tiemann
