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| Iraq-Jordan |
| Outnumbered Brits Defeat Iraqi Attackers in Hand-to-Hand Combat |
| 2004-05-17 |
| Outnumbered British soldiers killed 35 Iraqi attackers in the Armyâs 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 â and more were floating in a nearby river. Nine rebels were captured. .... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #39 Lucky the Spams werent involved thet still be fighting the action now with a hefty body count. Get some advice of the British Army! |
| Posted by: Anonymous4937 2004-05-19 7:53:18 AM |
| #38 Sadly, the Jocks do not wear kilts while on operations: however, many of them do wear ladies underwear as a matter of course. Makes me proud to be a Brit. |
| Posted by: Bravo Bravo 2004-05-19 7:06:10 AM |
| #37 '#14 Clearly an excellent example of the dangers of standing between a man and his whiskey. Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2004-05-17 9:22:42 AM ' Whiskey? The Scots drink whisky! Whiskey is the product of Irish distilleries, though I think some foreign concoctions also share the same spelling. |
| Posted by: ViroBono 2004-05-19 6:33:16 AM |
| #36 Hah! I thought I'd married a lady from hell. |
| Posted by: Brit: Tourist 2004-05-19 6:11:03 AM |
| #35 Actually, I believe it was the WWI Germans who called the Scotties "Ladies from Hell." |
| Posted by: Infidel Bob 2004-05-17 11:47:19 PM |
| #34 #31 Is this the same outfit the WWII Germans called the "Ladies from Hell?" #12 Poor old towel heads ran when they saw a bunch of men in skirts running upto them You can just see the insensitivity mafia - Yikes! This is not fair! 35 dead out of 100 'Qaedas vs 0 dead out of 20 Scots. They must not be allowed to wear the kilts. It is an unfair advantage. Why the poor insurgents are so offended by a skirt. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-17 7:06:30 PM |
| #33 Darlin, the French wasn't there. It was a figger of speech. The French aint doin no fighing. Theys just providin inspirational help to them islamists. |
| Posted by: Hank 2004-05-17 6:11:46 PM |
| #32 What were the French doing there? |
| Posted by: Jennifer 2004-05-17 5:51:30 PM |
| #31 Is this the same outfit the WWII Germans called the "Ladies from Hell?" Well, I guess we all now know the answer to that old drinking song question, "What does a Scotsman wear under his kilt"? A righteous pair. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2004-05-17 5:22:11 PM |
| #30 Yeah; they're pretty fierce when it comes to throwing down their weapons in the face of a struggle. Seriously, once again superior training and dedication wins the day. It's this kind of thing that makes me proud and gives me hope for the future of the world. These guys deserve a medal. |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2004-05-17 5:19:56 PM |
| #29 #15 "the Brits goin through the Iraqis like fear through the French Army" That ain't fair. France is just abused and made fun of. Just cause they ain't done it in a while don't mean they aint fierce. |
| Posted by: Hank 2004-05-17 5:10:01 PM |
| #28 The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders weren't "defeated" and "humiliated" by 100 "superior," "heroic," Muslim "swords" ??? I don't get it. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-05-17 4:32:13 PM |
| #27 #13 - Steve nice quote from Zulu, perhaps my all time favorite film (Battle of Roarke's drift, Anglo-Zulu War). Kudos! |
| Posted by: Nico the Magnificent 2004-05-17 4:17:10 PM |
#26 Too cool! Way to go, cousins!An Army spokesman said: âThis was an intense engagement.âGod, I love British understatement. I'm glad they're on our side. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-05-17 3:28:15 PM |
| #25 According to The Times, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were ambushed and the ensuing firefight lasted four hours. Warrior armoured vehicles were brought in as reinforcements but were unable to dislodge several fighters. The A & S thus resorted to 'classic infantry assaults' in section size groups - 3-5 men'who at one stage fixed bayonets and were involved in fierce and bloody hand to hand fighting.' Tater's supporters have claimed some bodies had been mutilated and pictures were shown on al-Arabiya TV. Well, if those silly Tater boys are going to play grown ups' games... |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-05-17 2:46:58 PM |
| #24 I couldn't get to the linked page, but I assume they exhausted their ammo first and then charged with bayonets. Anyone? |
| Posted by: Tibor 2004-05-17 1:33:12 PM |
| #23 The bright lads, the right lads, I have them in my mind, With the green flags on their bayonets all fluttering in the wind. --"The Connaught Rangers," by Winifred Mary Letts |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-05-17 12:58:21 PM |
| #22 heh, of topic but.. I once tried a winter diet where I can eat anything I want, BUT I could only wear shorts and a t-shirt, nothing else my body was using so much energy to produce heat it actually worked! got frost bite though and that was the end of that ;p |
| Posted by: Dcreeper 2004-05-17 12:42:57 PM |
| #21 So, they didn't see Braveheart, eh? Never mess w/men who wear wool skirts in cold weather. |
| Posted by: Anonymous2U 2004-05-17 11:30:11 AM |
| #20 apparently the muslim warrior of mythic proportions was just that - a myth. Fix Bayonets! |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-05-17 11:23:07 AM |
| #19 WALLACE!!!!! |
| Posted by: TomAnon 2004-05-17 11:11:47 AM |
| #18 Well done, mates! |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-05-17 10:28:18 AM |
| #17 Damn - this is an AMAZING thing to read. Things like this are what legends are made of. |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2004-05-17 10:24:05 AM |
| #16 Most of the stuff I learned at field medical school at Pendleton is now lost to time but one thing still stands out - It was SOP when surrounded by the enemy and out of ammo for the senior man still left alive to order fix bayonets and charge. Good show Brits! |
| Posted by: Doc8404 2004-05-17 9:36:26 AM |
| #15 Hats off to the Brits - can't you see it - the Brits goin through the Iraqis like fear through the French Army. |
| Posted by: Sam 2004-05-17 9:34:10 AM |
| #14 Clearly an excellent example of the dangers of standing between a man and his whiskey. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2004-05-17 9:22:42 AM |
| #13 Colour Sergeant Bourne: "It's a miracle." Lieutenant John Chard: "If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber miracle." Colour Sergeant Bourne: "And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind it." |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-05-17 8:40:58 AM |
| #12 haha poor old towel heads ran when they saw a bunch of men in skirts running upto them . bet they thought it was some crazy western females attacking them with kitchen blades and no burkahs . all joking aside , nice one lads . and as zenster pointed out, Will the self-inflicted humiliation never end?!? |
| Posted by: MacNails 2004-05-17 8:09:31 AM |
| #11 And this, Virginia, is why we still have bayonets. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-05-17 7:10:20 AM |
| #10 When the fighting ended bodies lay all over the highway and more were floating in a nearby river. â Could be a news report post Old-firm Derby.(Celtic vs. Rangers - |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-05-17 4:11:34 AM |
| #9 Last week I made a lame comment about Brits only killing two, thought how only two. This post is what I meant. Blokes! |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-05-17 4:07:16 AM |
| #8 I heard that Marines found that the AK47 was not bad when aimed the American way but that it was awful when fired the guerilla way (not the same firing position). |
| Posted by: JFM 2004-05-17 3:25:41 AM |
| #7 Thats sorta like asking how a mob of hundreds armed with AK-47s and RPGs keeps failing to hit a CPA HQ building. Whenever I read things like this I wonder if they're shooting the guns backwards or something. |
| Posted by: Valentine 2004-05-17 3:25:13 AM |
| #6 RWV, they would be better off kissing their asses good-bye. Although I can't help but wonder how 100 AK47-weilding Jihadi's mananaged to miss all but three Highlanders? They must have pissed off some Cherubi(Angels) pretty bad. |
| Posted by: Charles 2004-05-17 2:53:45 AM |
| #5 Well done. In the future when the infidel bagpipes are playing "Scotland the Brave" it would be best to lay down your weapons and back away slowly. |
| Posted by: RWV 2004-05-17 1:39:46 AM |
| #4 Will the |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-05-17 1:17:16 AM |
| #3 9 Captured, heh, prolly equals 9 off-target thrusts. Sloppy - the Regimental Sar'nt Major's gonna have some ass, lol! They can expect endless drills, heh. Now this sounds more like our cousins... Wow, indeed! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-05-17 12:52:05 AM |
| #2 100 rebels: 9 captured, 35 bayoneted, and the rest turned tail. I'd say the Argyll and Sutherland Highlaners added to their illustrious reputation. Wow is right! |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-05-17 12:36:09 AM |
| #1 ... wow. |
| Posted by: joe 2004-05-17 12:25:15 AM |