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2012/02/17 20:52:57
Subject: Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Hangin' with Gork & Mork
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For your enjoyment, I give Iran's Female Ninja Assassin Training School
KARAJ, Iran (CBS) -- Scores of black-clad "ninja" fighters, with their dusky eyes peeping through masks, march towards the front-line of a studio tucked away in the outskirts of the Iranian capital.
These are ninjas with a difference. Some 3,000 women in the Islamic state are being trained as lethal warriors at a school, which was set up by ninja master and trainer Akbar Faraji 23 years ago.
Using traditional Japanese martial arts techniques, these women ax kick, forward punch, and occasionally wield their swords at each other.
Similar to scenes often seen in high-budget Hollywood blockbusters, some of these women can even walk up a straight wall.
These martial artists, whose ages range from 5 to 56 years of age, are preparing to defend their country.
"What is important to me, as an Iranian and as a teacher, is that I have to do this job so we train women to have strength and ability. We have to do everything (in our power) to protect our homeland," said Faraji in an interview with Reuters television.
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Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
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2012/02/17 21:12:53
Subject: Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Dominar
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This must be the Iranian military that Frazzled was warning me of in that other thread.
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2012/02/17 21:14:37
Subject: Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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sourclams wrote:This must be the Iranian military that Frazzled was warning me of in that other thread.
Its like they just watched the new Borat movie or something.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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2012/02/17 21:16:33
Subject: Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Secret Force Behind the Rise of the Tau
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Lets see how those swords work against a Stryker.
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2012/02/17 21:22:25
Subject: Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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LordofHats wrote:Lets see how those swords work against a Stryker.
Ask the Poles about that. 
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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2012/02/17 21:24:57
Subject: Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Fixture of Dakka
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I wonder if the religious police realize that a great deal of what they're doing is related to Shinto and Mikkyo and have nothing to do with Islam..
My wife laughed and said the big kanji on their uniform can be translated as "bujin" or God of War.
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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do |
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2012/02/17 22:07:30
Subject: Re:Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Sadistic Inquisitorial Excruciator
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Iranian Military: A donkey pulling half a car counts as a 'Tank'.
Lets see how far they push people's buttons...and how long they'll last.
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2012/02/17 22:46:58
Subject: Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Battlefortress Driver with Krusha Wheel
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Hmmm, apparently this is meant to be a serious initiative too.
Do they train them to catch bullets?
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2012/02/21 23:21:00
Subject: Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Hoary Long Fang with Lascannon
Marrickville (sydney) NSW, Australia
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Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:Hmmm, apparently this is meant to be a serious initiative too.
Do they train them to catch bullets?
I'll bet they do... although it's a trick that usually only works once 
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ChrisWWII wrote:"Yea verily, though I pass through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil for I am driving a house sized mass of FETH YOU!"
themocaw wrote:I view slaanesh as a giant ball of boobs and genitalia of both sexes.
Edmondblack: There's something about some str10, AP2 blast weaponry which says "i love you" in that very special way. |
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2012/02/21 23:23:58
Subject: Re:Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Trazyn's Museum Curator
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I'm confused...aren't women meant to be second class citizens? Like, they're meant to be subservient to men?
Why the hell are they training them how to kill a man with a punch to the throat?
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What I have
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Westwood lives in death!
Peace through power!
A longbeard when it comes to Necrons and WHFB. Grumble Grumble
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2012/02/22 01:56:05
Subject: Re:Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Mutilatin' Mad Dok
SE Michigan
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CthuluIsSpy wrote:.aren't women meant to be second class citizens?
Ha thats not Iran, you must be thinking of Afghanistan 
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2012/02/22 20:24:36
Subject: Re:Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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CthuluIsSpy wrote:I'm confused...aren't women meant to be second class citizens? Like, they're meant to be subservient to men?
Why the hell are they training them how to kill a man with a punch to the throat?
Iran is under the impression that women enjoy their status so they wouldn't possibly do that.
Anyway, this is sure gonna work against Israeli fighter jets...
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My Armies:
5,500pts 
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2012/02/22 20:56:42
Subject: Re:Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Lord Commander in a Plush Chair
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Mr Hyena wrote:Iranian Military: A donkey pulling half a car counts as a 'Tank'.
Actually they make their own tanks!
http://www.tanknutdave.com/component/content/article/78
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2012/02/22 21:05:45
Subject: Re:Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Renegade Inquisitor de Marche
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That is surprisingly capable but at the same time lacking somehwat...
I suppose you'd need more information to do a decent comparison...
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Dakka Bingo! By Ouze
"You are the best at flying things"-Kanluwen
"Further proof that Purple is a fething brilliant super villain " -KingCracker
"Purp.. Im pretty sure I have a gun than can reach you...."-Nicorex
"That's not really an apocalypse. That's just Europe."-Grakmar
"almost as good as winning free cake at the tea drinking contest for an Englishman." -Reds8n
Seal up your lips and give no words but mum.
Equip, Reload. Do violence.
Watch for Gerry. |
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2012/02/22 21:07:45
Subject: Re:Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Lord Commander in a Plush Chair
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purplefood wrote:
That is surprisingly capable but at the same time lacking somehwat...
I suppose you'd need more information to do a decent comparison...
I assume we'd win in a straight shoot out. We don't know how many they have though. It does demonstrate that they are a bit more capable then some give them credit for, though it's not a particularly attractive vehicle.
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2012/02/22 21:09:29
Subject: Re:Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Renegade Inquisitor de Marche
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Howard A Treesong wrote:purplefood wrote:
That is surprisingly capable but at the same time lacking somehwat...
I suppose you'd need more information to do a decent comparison...
I assume we'd win in a straight shoot out. We don't know how many they have though. It does demonstrate that they are a bit more capable then some give them credit for, though it's not a particularly attractive vehicle.
I did think that...
Though surprising, many countries just import their tanks and weapons...
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Dakka Bingo! By Ouze
"You are the best at flying things"-Kanluwen
"Further proof that Purple is a fething brilliant super villain " -KingCracker
"Purp.. Im pretty sure I have a gun than can reach you...."-Nicorex
"That's not really an apocalypse. That's just Europe."-Grakmar
"almost as good as winning free cake at the tea drinking contest for an Englishman." -Reds8n
Seal up your lips and give no words but mum.
Equip, Reload. Do violence.
Watch for Gerry. |
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2012/02/22 23:59:36
Subject: Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Napoleonics Obsesser
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Lol, they even use Kanji. That's pretty cool, I suppose. We have our own ninjas though... they're called Navy SEALS  They'll sneak up behind you and slice your throat ear to ear! 
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If only ZUN!bar were here... |
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2012/02/23 00:06:02
Subject: Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Renegade Inquisitor de Marche
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Samus_aran115 wrote:They'll sneak up behind you and slice your throat ear to ear!
My throat doesn't have ears...
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Dakka Bingo! By Ouze
"You are the best at flying things"-Kanluwen
"Further proof that Purple is a fething brilliant super villain " -KingCracker
"Purp.. Im pretty sure I have a gun than can reach you...."-Nicorex
"That's not really an apocalypse. That's just Europe."-Grakmar
"almost as good as winning free cake at the tea drinking contest for an Englishman." -Reds8n
Seal up your lips and give no words but mum.
Equip, Reload. Do violence.
Watch for Gerry. |
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2012/02/23 00:09:51
Subject: Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Oberleutnant
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This isn't the first "daft" idea to come out of Iran. There were those flying boat things as well. I can't help but think that somewhere there is an Office of Disinformation in Tehran, and they spend all day thinking up this stuff, then laughing at those who believe it. Compare and contrast with the sheer lack of information about the only realistic military project they appear to have: a tank.
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"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all" Mario Savio |
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2012/02/23 00:15:20
Subject: Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Renegade Inquisitor de Marche
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ArbeitsSchu wrote:This isn't the first "daft" idea to come out of Iran. There were those flying boat things as well. I can't help but think that somewhere there is an Office of Disinformation in Tehran, and they spend all day thinking up this stuff, then laughing at those who believe it. Compare and contrast with the sheer lack of information about the only realistic military project they appear to have: a tank.
You say that but looking at the British military from mid-WWII to the Cold War era...
Things got a little out of hand...
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Dakka Bingo! By Ouze
"You are the best at flying things"-Kanluwen
"Further proof that Purple is a fething brilliant super villain " -KingCracker
"Purp.. Im pretty sure I have a gun than can reach you...."-Nicorex
"That's not really an apocalypse. That's just Europe."-Grakmar
"almost as good as winning free cake at the tea drinking contest for an Englishman." -Reds8n
Seal up your lips and give no words but mum.
Equip, Reload. Do violence.
Watch for Gerry. |
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2012/02/23 00:24:36
Subject: Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Oberleutnant
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Given we were supplying the buggers for years, I would have thought that they would have already seen our daftest, and moved on without bothering to replicate it.
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"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all" Mario Savio |
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2012/02/23 00:28:19
Subject: Iran's greatest threat to the West: Ninjas! Female Ninjas!
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Renegade Inquisitor de Marche
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ArbeitsSchu wrote:Given we were supplying the buggers for years, I would have thought that they would have already seen our daftest, and moved on without bothering to replicate it.
You'd think that but most of the daftest ideas were fairly goods ones...
At any rate sometimes you get certain groups who, given certain... obstacles, eventually ovecome them through fairly absurd means...
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Dakka Bingo! By Ouze
"You are the best at flying things"-Kanluwen
"Further proof that Purple is a fething brilliant super villain " -KingCracker
"Purp.. Im pretty sure I have a gun than can reach you...."-Nicorex
"That's not really an apocalypse. That's just Europe."-Grakmar
"almost as good as winning free cake at the tea drinking contest for an Englishman." -Reds8n
Seal up your lips and give no words but mum.
Equip, Reload. Do violence.
Watch for Gerry. |
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Iron Warriors VII Company = 1850pts
Fjälnir Ironfist's Great Company = 1800pts
Guflag's Mercenary Ogres = 2000pts
3000+