Afghanistan: Our Boys blitz Taliban bash (Royal Marines spoil celebration of Bhutto assassination)

The Sun (U.K.) ^ | December 31, 2007 | JEROME STARKEY

[Stoat]

 

Our Boys blitz Taliban bash

 

On patrol ... British soldier in Helmand province

 

By JEROME STARKEY
with Our Boys in Helmand
 

Published: Today

 

 

BRITISH commandos launched a devastating blitz on the Taliban – as the evil terrorists held a party to celebrate Benazir Bhutto’s murder.

The dawn raid was staged after messages were intercepted about the sick knees-up in Afghanistan’s Helmand province.

Royal Marines crept into position as the fanatics partied the night away just hours after Ms Bhutto was killed in Pakistan.

The bash was being held in ruined compounds a few hundred yards from Our Boys’ remote base in Kajaki.

Ragtag Taliban sentries tried to hit back with machine gun fire – but stood no chance against the heroes of 40 Commando’s Charlie Company.

 

Bloodthirsty

 

The terrorists were pounded with mortars, rockets and heavy machine guns.

Two bloodthirsty revellers trying to creep towards Our Boys in a trench were spotted by thermal-imaging equipment – and targeted with a Javelin heat-seeking missile.

The £65,000 rocket – designed to stop Soviet tanks – locked on to their body heat and tore more than a kilometer across the desert in seconds.

Troop Sergeant Dominic Conway, 32 – who directed mortar rounds – grinned: “It must have had quite a detrimental effect on their morale.”

Sgt Conway, from Whitley Bay, Tyneside, said of the Taliban lair: “It used to be their backyard and now we’ve made it ours.”

[Stoat]

I watched a video of this missile hitting a tank. After the dust settled, you could not tell the target used to be a tank. The barrel of the main gun was about twenty yards from the engine- and these were the largest pieces left over after the blast. A very impressive missile.

WOW!  I want one  :-)

Your post prompted me to do a YouTube search with the keywords "javelin missile" and I got 76 hits  :-)

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

[hinckley buzzard]

Not sure that was the most cost effective way of dealing with a couple bad guys.

There are things more important than money. Imagine being a raghead and watching this event happen at fairly close quarters.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Would you really want to go to a Taliban party? No booze, but you’re supplied with unbearded boys. That’s what they mean by a “sick knees-up”.

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[Stoat]

They blowed up real good!

YouTube - Second City Blow-Up

 

((((snicker)))))

[Stoat]

Thank you very much for pinging your list  :-)

[magslinger]

Party poopers! :-)

The Brits just brought the fireworks.

[SandRat]

You are most welcome.

[2111USMC]

Yeah, but neither would be as much fun!

Our British friends like to celebrate the New Years too!

[RichInOC]

Well done, Bootnecks! I found the heat-seeking anti-tank missile used as an anti-personnel round a particularly impressive touch...but probably not as impressive as the fellas you targeted did.

Happy New Year...and good hunting.

[chesty_puller]

British Army kicking ass and taking names bump!

Indeed, and with class.

[null and void]

Not sure that was the most cost effective way of dealing with a couple bad guys.

No, but it was sooooooooo satisfying!

Besides think of the psychological effects on any taliwanker that managed to creep away. It's a story that will grow with every retelling...

[RDTF]

score!

[hoosierham]

EXACTLY!

Besides,the Vietnam War cost the U.S. about $500,000 per dead Viet Cong or North Vietnamese regular;the Brits did in the Talibaners on the cheap!

At !15,000 pounds that's about what $20K U.S.? per obliterated terrorist.And no chance to hold ceremonies over the remains.

[dsc]

“No booze, but you’re supplied with unbearded boys.”

Do you really know that, or are you just reasoning from what you do know?

[Enterprise]

I can’t imagine going to a Taliban party. I’m too wild for them. Or I used to be anyway.

[Southack]

"I can still buy .30-06 round at three for $1.00. A .50 caliber round can be had for $3.00 Either one will do the job and the delivery system is a lot lighter and costs a lot less too!"

Not at 2500 meters. Read the article.

I don't know about you but after 900 yards I'm worthless even with ma duece.

[Jabba the Nutt]

I just remember that some Taliban commander put out a rule book on which boys you could take into your tent. Come to think of it, maybe unbearded boys were banned. They had to have some facial hair first.

[dsc]

“I just remember that some Taliban commander put out a rule book on which boys you could take into your tent.”

Where there is sodomy, there also is Satan.

[Stultis]

Happy New Year, Mullah #*&%ers!