RAN vs. Iran
Royal Australian Navy wins:
When Iranian Revolutionary Guards captured the British sailors and Royal Marines in March, it was not exactly their first attempt.
It turns out that Iranian forces made an earlier concerted attempt to seize a boarding party from the Royal Australian Navy.
The Australians, though, to quote one military source, “were having none of it”.
The BBC has been told the Australians re-boarded the vessel they had just searched, aimed their machine guns at the approaching Iranians and warned them to back off, using what was said to be “highly colourful language”.
Bloody colonials. No sense of decorum. Wher’s their dignity?
Topics: Australia, Iran, military
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:46 am on Friday, June 22, 2007
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June 22nd, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I don’t know. Yelling abuse at poor defenseless Iranians. Whatever next!!!!!
June 22nd, 2007 at 4:46 pm
5.56mm or 7.62mm sounds fine to me, Theo.
June 22nd, 2007 at 5:46 pm
[Alphie mode] Oh yeah, well, why doesn’t Bush send his drunken daughters there? Don’t have an answer for that, do you? [/Alphie mode]
June 22nd, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Ummmm, RebeccaH.
That’s so damn good, how do WE know, it isn’t the little creature from Black Lagoon?
June 22nd, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Hurrah! Bless ‘em.
Very good, Rebecca! Of course, that wasn’t really much of a challenge, now was it? As a troll, the ant is pathetically lacking. Still, it was clever, and it gave me a smile.
June 23rd, 2007 at 2:15 am
Here’s the Right Way to Deal With Iran
It turns out that five Iranian ships tried to capture some Australian soldiers several years ago, the same way they did the British soldiers just recently. The Australian soldiers, instead of caving in like the British did, aimed their machine guns at …
June 23rd, 2007 at 2:15 am
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