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'I just grabbed the geezer': Hero squaddie seizes top Taliban leader after desert FIST FIGHT
Daily Mail (UK) ^
| 15th April 2011
Posted on 04/16/2011 12:42:21 AM PDT by naturalman1975
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To: naturalman1975
The British military are good folk.
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posted on
04/16/2011 12:45:31 AM PDT
by
Dapper 26
To: naturalman1975
Excellent coverage by the patriotic UK Daily Mail that puts every American media outlet to shame. I check UK Daily Mail nearly every day. They have tons of American readers plus you can often find anti-Obama coverage there that US media will not publish. Dittos for other UK newspapers sometimes but Mail is the best
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posted on
04/16/2011 12:52:42 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(nzt - "works better if you're already smart")
To: naturalman1975
Now that was my laugh for the day, if not the week.
Good for him. I hope the Brit goes through the rest of his deployment safely.
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posted on
04/16/2011 12:58:08 AM PDT
by
handmade
To: Dapper 26
How dare you insinuate those horrid armed beasts did anything more than impede the peaceful progress of peaceful
Moslems as they go about their asssigned duties. /sarc
Should have clotheslined his butt with a piece of commo
wire and separated his body from his brain housing group.
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posted on
04/16/2011 1:05:36 AM PDT
by
WePledge
(Semper Fidelis)
To: dennisw
I enjoy the Daily Mail too but it’s become SO Americanized. I like to read it for what’s going on in Great Britain, not what Lindsay Lohan is doing. You have to click on British news to get British news!
Of course, I’m sure the hard copy is geared towards British readers.
That said, I’m so happy about the brave soldier who pulled the freak off the motercycle and belted him. Sadly, I’m sure he’ll be put up on charges of abuse!
To: naturalman1975
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posted on
04/16/2011 1:09:37 AM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: naturalman1975
If he were an American soldier, he'd be punished for not asking permission to jump on the terrorist.
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posted on
04/16/2011 1:22:56 AM PDT
by
Realman30
("I've already made a donation to Haiti. It's called taxes". . . . El Rushbo.)
To: dennisw
Much of the US media, if they portrayed this, would be worried about ‘excessive bruising’ and pending disciplinary action, not to mention the terrorist broke a nail. The link seems to show they don’t overtly hate their own troops. The story makes me smile.
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posted on
04/16/2011 1:23:59 AM PDT
by
allmost
To: Realman30
Man, I hope not! But Private Stephens certainly understood the old Nelsonian proverb that a man could do little wrong by going toe-to-toe with a Tango.
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posted on
04/16/2011 1:35:57 AM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: naturalman1975
how do you like them apples?
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posted on
04/16/2011 1:40:19 AM PDT
by
cavador
("Self determination is not a malfunction"!(Harkness;Fallout 3 Rivet City 2077))
To: naturalman1975
What the Hell are muckers?
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posted on
04/16/2011 2:01:48 AM PDT
by
SatinDoll
(NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
To: SatinDoll
Friends/fellow soldiers maybe? Just guessing mind you, laughs.
God bless them, every one.
Tatt
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posted on
04/16/2011 2:07:34 AM PDT
by
thesearethetimes...
("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." DorothyBernard)
To: naturalman1975
He sounds like a Chuck Norris clone. When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the world down..
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posted on
04/16/2011 2:08:15 AM PDT
by
richardtavor
(Pray for the peace of Jerusalem)
To: jazusamo; Girlene; 4woodenboats; Grimmy; xzins; smoothsailing; lilycicero; bigheadfred; ...
This is pretty cool (( ping )).
I will say, though, that if I (or some other people I know) was in the same situation and aware that this “geezer” was a bomb maker, he would have been beaten to death on the spot and shat upon. Absolutely no question.
To: thesearethetimes...
Yes. I love the story. Sometimes an impulse, and others think it heroic. I believe he just did what he felt was the right and correct thing - it needed doing!
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posted on
04/16/2011 2:11:47 AM PDT
by
SatinDoll
(NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
To: SatinDoll
No, it’s not the folks that make that jelly and jam, it just means a pal, a friend, fellow soldier.
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posted on
04/16/2011 2:13:42 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: SatinDoll
Slang in parts of Britain for ‘friend’ - believed derived from Irish ‘Mo Chara’ - My Friend.
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posted on
04/16/2011 2:33:36 AM PDT
by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: naturalman1975
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posted on
04/16/2011 2:39:00 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
To: Dapper 26
The British military are good folkNo argument there - most free-world troops are good folk.
The sad thing is that if one of our guys pummeled a poor taliban bomb maker with his fists, he be up on charges from his own government for cruelty...
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posted on
04/16/2011 2:48:25 AM PDT
by
trebb
("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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