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Animal Warfare: Could the Taliban Train Monkeys to Shoot?
Foxnews ^
| 7/27/10
| LiveScience
Posted on 07/27/2010 1:05:02 PM PDT by Cheesel
A bizarre report of Taliban insurgents training monkeys and baboons to shoot at U.S. and NATO soldiers in Afghanistan seems unrealistic at best, according to an expert.
The story that appeared this month in the Chinese People's Daily suggested that insurgents used a reward-and-punishment system to train macaques and baboons to target soldiers wearing U.S. military uniforms. The Taliban supposedly "taught monkeys how to use the Kalashnikov, Bren light machine gun and trench mortars," the People's Daily wrote.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; animals; apes; baboon; gorillawarfare; gwot; macaca; macaque; monkeys; primates; taliban
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To: Cheesel; Slings and Arrows
Careful, Taliban. It may be easiter convince the monkeys to give up jihad.
And beware of our sharks armed with lasers.
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posted on
07/27/2010 1:26:59 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
To: Cheesel
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posted on
07/27/2010 1:31:07 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: Cheesel
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posted on
07/27/2010 1:34:43 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Cheesel
I would have sworn that the taliban WAS a bunch of monkeys who knew how to shoot. Talk about a revelation.
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posted on
07/27/2010 1:49:49 PM PDT
by
Dr.Zoidberg
(Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
To: Cheesel
Haven’t you seen pictures of these “guys?”
To: Cheesel
Why not? They wear the same Genes.
To: a fool in paradise
Why not? The Las Vegas PD did.
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posted on
07/27/2010 2:13:15 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Cheesel
They are just trying to cover up that they smell like animals.
To: Cheesel
Doesn’t a teacher have to be smarter than the student?
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07/27/2010 3:08:25 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Greenhouse Theory is false. Totally debunked. "GH gases" is a non-sequitur.)
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