((((*TRUMPET*)))) CHARRRRRRRRGE!!!!!!!!

conjur

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That happened back in April.

News from a non-tabloid:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3731635.stm

They killed at least 20 of their assailants and probably more like 35.

Bodies were later seen floating in a nearby river.

"We gave them a bloody nose," said one officer. "They might think twice before launching that sort of attack again."

Sadr's troops had thrown everything they had at the British: heavy machine guns, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.

The British returned fire and in the end they mounted old fashioned frontal assaults - their troops even fixed bayonets, the first time they have carried out a "bayonet charge" since the Falklands war in 1982.