British Ghurka soldiers
Fri Mar 7, 5:02 AM ET
British ghurka soldiers, a part of the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment, walk in a formation in the Kuwaiti desert near Iraq (news - web sites)'s border after the visit of Chief of staff of the British armed forces General Sir Mike Jackson, March 7, 2003. Unidentified people have cut down part of a fence marking a demilitarized Iraq Kuwait border zone (DMZ), U.N. observers said on Friday, in a move analysts described as a preparation for possible hostilities with Iraq. REUTERS/Oleg Popov
Fri Mar 7, 4:49 AM ET
British ghurka soldiers, a part of the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment wait in formation in the Kuwaiti desert near Iraq (news - web sites)'s border, prior to the visit of Chief of staff of the British armed forces General Sir Mike Jackson, March 7, 2003. Unidentified people have cut down part of a fence marking the demilitarized Iraq Kuwait border zone (DMZ), U.N. observers said on Friday, in a move analysts described as a preparation for possible hostilities with Iraq. REUTERS/Oleg Popov
Fri Mar 21, 5:54 AM ET
A soldier from the Ghurka regiment guards bombs brought onto the tarmac ready to be loaded onto a B52 bomber(AFP/File/Gerry Penny)
The Brits are holding nothing back.
I'd really hate to have those tough little guys with their big Ghurka knives coming after me.