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BuffaloJack
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:00 pm Post subject: Shrapnel tore through enemy

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from the Sun Online
Shrapnel tore through enemy
WHEN Sgt Dan Mills and his sniper platoon flew into Iraq in April 2004, it was supposed to be just another peacekeeping tour. But within days they were fighting for their lives as the fanatical Mehdi Army uprising began.

Over the next six months, Mills and his company of 100 British soldiers held a desolate base in the wasteland town of Al Amarah against overwhelming odds.

The Siege of Cimic House has gone down in military folklore. In Part One of our serialisation of Dan’s new book, Sniper One – adapted by Sun Defence Editor TOM NEWTON DUNN – he offers the first full insider's account of the epic battle, beating MoD attempts to ban details of the engagement being published.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007380509,00.html

Good tale of a hundred Brits holding out against the Medhi Army.
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:10 pm Post subject:

Every time I hear 'Mahdi' army I think of another Brit, Gordon at Khartoum. _________________ "KILL ALL THE LAWYERS!" -Wlm Shakespeare

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