Funny how those tough terrorists run like hell when they are opposed by "real" soldiers willing and allowed to fight.
Canadian soldiers joined the renowned Royal Gurkha Rifles Sunday in a battle to eliminate the source of rocket fire that targeted two Kandahar military outposts.
But when the coalition forces showed up, insurgents hiding out at a compound near the Pashmul district shied away from a fight. It's the third joint operation between the Gurkhas -- a highly-praised Nepalese infantry division of the British army -- Canadian soldiers and the Afghan National Army.
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Those Gurkhas are bad-ass. Was it Tunisia where they battled Rommel? Of course, to be fair, Rommel only had a couple of divisions of Germans -- the rest were Italians.
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