Posted on 05/04/2011 8:11:23 AM PDT by Zakeet
A FEARLESS four-legged recruit joined US Special Forces as they stormed Osama Bin Laden's secret lair.
The explosive-sniffing dog was strapped to an assault team member as they took on one of their greatest challenges to date.
He was part of the operation in which the elite US Navy Seals lowered themselves down ropes from three Black Hawk helicopters into the terrorist supremo's hideout in the town of Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Sunday.
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Heavily armoured hounds — equipped with infrared night-sight cameras — have been used in the past by the top-secret unit.
Wearing oxygen masks, the pooches have been trained to jump from aircraft at 25,000ft, before seeking out insurgents in hostile environments.
The animals will attack anyone carrying a weapon.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Dogs save lives, therefore it is safe to say that the PETA Idiots are whining about this to the sympathetic Wee Wee and are headed a Pentagon protest at this very minute.
I wish it had been trained pigs.
If’s any consolation, fundamentalist Muslims consider dogs to be unclean also. In Iran, there is a debate about outlawying keeping dogs as pets.
We didn’t “snare” Osama: we shot him.
Lots of muslims hate dogs too...
Wow...Im suprised this info came out. It was TS-SCI back in 2005. Looks like it is OSINT now. I guess the cat is out of the bag now. BTW...some of the pooches have HALO badges and airborne wings IIRC!
We had to stop the use of guard dogs in Iraq...good ole Red Cross....Cruel and unusual punishment
So will the left go as nuts over this as they did over the news that Bush era interrogations helped?
What our dogs will do for us never ceases to amaze me. Knowing how much the Islamists hate dogs, it makes me smile even more to think that the last thing OBL saw was American troops and dogs in his house.
Great article!:)=^..^=
People zay dat Hilter vas sure, a very badt mann. But at least he luft docs undt schildern.
THANKS doggies for your service!
I hope the dog did what all dogs do best.....lift their leg and mark their territory.
Q: What’s black & brown and looks good on a terrorist?
A: A Doberman Pinscher.
“I wish it had been trained pigs.”
It could probably be done. Feral pigs can be very aggressive, and pigs are smarter than dogs:
http://www.suite101.com/content/the-intelligent-pig-a84448
but not the best team players:
http://www.rps.psu.edu/probing/pigs.html
I'm all doggie gun-ho, but dogs don't read altimeters. It would be cool if they got to wear a cape though!
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True, A Muslim women said the same thing to me.
I told her we have them as protection, hunt down criminals, and as companions.
She got quiet.
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