Re: Invaders in hasty retreat

Invaders in hasty retreat
> 
> Embarrassed British defence chiefs apologised yesterday after a
detachment
> of Royal Marines on a training exercise accidentally invaded Spain.
> 
> Twenty commandos in full combat gear attacked in two landing craft at
La
> Linea in southern Spain, believing the beach was on Gibraltar, a
British
> colony.
> 
> The landing had ben entrusted to what one source described as "the
worst
> possible person - a young officer with a map."
> 
> The commandos were halted by two Spanish policemen who informed them
they
> were 200 metres off course - and on Spanish soil - just as the squad
fanned
> out and adopted firing positions.
> 
> - Leo Schlink
> 
> More at this link:
> 
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1827000/1827554.stm

This is of course the oficial story, and is of course true. Any
references
to a man on the beach named James wearing a tuxedo and chasing a man
with a
cat are totally false. In fact they were not there and I dont know why I
even brought it up. There were no strangely garbed henchman either that
were attacked by the commandos. There was of course no secret lab
disguised
as a hot dog stand with a death ray/microwave. This was all the fault of
a