When Iranian Revolutionary Guards captured the British sailors and Royal Marines in March, it was not exactly their first attempt.Bwahahaha - maybe they sang 'em a few verses of Kumbaya too.
It turns out that Iranian forces made an earlier concerted attempt to seize a boarding party from the Royal Australian Navy.
The Australians, though, to quote one military source, "were having none of it".
The BBC has been told the Australians re-boarded the vessel they had just searched, aimed their machine guns at the approaching Iranians and warned them to back off, using what was said to be "highly colourful language".
The Iranians withdrew, and the Australians were reportedly lifted off the ship by one of their own helicopters.
Friday, June 22, 2007
At least the Australians are thinking straight
When the fuzzy wuzzies come by, show them the business end of the weapon: