To: Semper Paratus
When the Mongols laid seige to Baghdad they had the Caliph brought out and asked him to surrender the city and spare the inhabitants death and slavery. He refused, so they tied him into a leather sack and ran an army of calvary over him. He was the last Caliph of Islam. Has anyone told these Mongol types that we want Sodom Hussein alive, not all mushy in a leather sack? Talk about sending in the hard core!!!! To make it really sweet, how about a battalion of Ghurkas.
14 posted on
09/26/2003 9:03:19 AM PDT by
Bedford Forrest
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To: Bedford Forrest
I read that the Brits have some Ghurkas with them! Seems like the article said they were in Iraq in WWII too!
18 posted on
09/26/2003 9:55:36 AM PDT by
SwinneySwitch
(The barbarians are inside the gates!)
To: Bedford Forrest
Has anyone told these Mongol types that we want Sodom Hussein alive, not all mushy in a leather sack? Talk about sending in the hard core!!!! To make it really sweet, how about a battalion of Ghurkas. Ayo Gorkhali! Per the pic in #36, they're being used as a contract security force for essential US communication facilities and other interesting taskings. And they're busy with a counterinsurgency campaign against upstart Maoists at home, but aside from some Gurkhas serving with the initial British forces that helped remove Saddam Hussein from power, there are also some involved with the follow-on securing of the country and the nation rebuilding effort.
Very fun guys to work around, though serious when it's work time. And about as good as what they do anywhere in the world, or in their own neck of the woods. And the thought of playing bukashi with Saddam's head in a leather sack would be as great a sport for the Gurkhas as it is for the Afghani and Mongol horsemen. Some of those Gurkhas are pretty good riders, too.
37 posted on
09/27/2003 9:54:16 AM PDT by
archy
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