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Posted on 06/21/2007 3:41:25 PM PDT by Enchante
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 sailors detained by Iran The British personnel were eventually released
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".
The Iranians withdrew, and the Australians were reportedly lifted off the ship by one of their own helicopters.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
good on ya, mates.... the brits are bloody poofters!!!
This was BEFORE the scandalous episode of the 15 Brits being taken hostage ..... why didn’t any lesson get learned about how to handle the Mullah’s scumbags??
Go Aussies, that’s showing how not to take any #### from the Mullahs!
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