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24-01-2010, 15:18 #1
Saudi Losses in Yemen
...are more extensive than I'd realised:
Saudi Arabia's assistant defense minister said Saturday that the bodies of 20 of the 26 soldiers reported missing were found on the border, raising the toll for the fight against Yemen's Shiite rebels to 133.
Prince Khaled bin Sultan told reporters that the bodies were found after "liberating" areas around Dokhan mountain, a strategic high point in the rugged border region.
He said six soldiers are still missing.
On Thursday, Saudi Arabia said its army lost 113 troops including Lt. Col. Saeed Matuq al-Omari, a paratrooper and a veteran of the 1991 Gulf War..."However proletarian and semiliterate he may have been, the English soldier, well nourished with meat and beer, stimulated with gin, and convinced of his own racial superiority to the foreign rabble he had to face, was a magnificent combatant, as anyone who has ever seen hooligans in action at a soccer match can readily imagine."
Prof. Alessandro Barbaro, The Battle
(nicked from Mallinson, The Making of the British Army)
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24-01-2010, 15:21 #2Senior Member
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Re: Saudi Losses in Yemen
Irrespective of the differences that we have culturally, the death of a fellow soldier is always a cause for commiseration. RIP.
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