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Nytram
November 15th, 2010, 02:38 AM
I can almost forgive him for his awful music...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11753050


Singer James Blunt has told the BBC how he refused an order to attack Russian troops when he was a British soldier in Kosovo.

Blunt said he was willing to risk a court martial by rejecting the order from a US General.

But he was backed by British General Sir Mike Jackson, who told him "I'm not going to have my soldiers be responsible for starting World War 3".

Blunt was ordered to seize an airfield - but the Russians had got there first.

...almost.

Tristam Green
November 15th, 2010, 02:38 PM
I don't know. Sounds a little sensationalist to me, and really it seems his superior officer, General Jackson, was the one who avoided the conflict.

Sean Moran
November 15th, 2010, 02:58 PM
I don't know. Sounds a little sensationalist to me, and really it seems his superior officer, General Jackson, was the one who avoided the conflict.

Sir Michael Jackson? No doubt a posthumous knighthood eh wot eh?

Mustn't have been much of a newsbreaking day for the BBC this Ides of November ...
:):):)

Evil-Ernie
November 15th, 2010, 03:07 PM
Is this also Michael Jackson the famous Whiskey connoisseur?? :P