Posted on 05/26/2005 6:05:32 PM PDT by lowbridge
Explosives attached to a dog
From correspondents in Kirkuk
IRAQ insurgents attached explosives to a dog today in a bid to bomb a military convoy near the northern oil centre of Kirkuk but the animal was the only casualty, police said.
The insurgents wrapped an explosive belt around the dog's body and detonated it as the convoy passed through Dakuk, 40km south of Kirkuk, the town's police chief Colonel Mohammed Barzaji said.
"The dog was torn apart by the explosion which caused neither injury among the soldiers nor any damage," said Barzaji, adding that the bomb had been detonated outside a Shiite mosque.
"Eight suspects have been detained," he said.
It is not the first time that animals have been used in insurgent attacks. In 2003, donkey carts were used to conceal makeshift multiple rocket launchers in a flurry of attacks in Baghdad.
Animal carcasses and even human corpses have also been used to conceal explosives.
This adds new meaning to the concept of Muslim warriors as cowardly dogs.
Where's PETA when we need them!
ping
It's hard to hire good help these days....
The Red Army used this tactic against the Nazis during the early days of Barbarossa. The dogs wore packs with sticks jutting upward out of them.
It turned out the packs were full of explosives, and when the dog ran under a vehicle (as it had been trained to do), the stick would bend down, triggering the detonation.
That's it. I am covering a copy of the "KOOKRAN" in Alpo and giving it to the Pitbulls down the street to enjoy shredding.
lovely.
Oh the dog probably wasn't a coward... but the people who set him up sure are!
Did the dog answer to the name of Zarqawi?
Ah, the great Islamic Warrior... fighting against women, schoolchildren, and domesticated pets.
This is good news: its a sign that they are running low of evil morons to do this job.
Bet they are having a hairball right this moment!
When are we just gonna nuke the skanks and just start over. I'm sick to my gut. Whoever did this is almos' worse than a RINO.
Oh yea, it's all over now, PETA will be asking for more troops.
Yup. As I recall they trained them by always feeding them under a running tractor. So the dogs always tried to seek food under the noisy German tanks which would then trigger the explosive.
PETA will blame the US for being there.
In 1962, the German magazine Kristall published in some thirty installments, an account of Hitler’s attack on Russia under the title Unternehmen Barbarossa (Operation Barbarossa). It is a dramatic, and at times over-dramatized account, but it is correct in historical fact. However, in the ninth installment, describing Guderian’s attack on 30th September 1941, the following story appears:‘On the morning of 30 September the simultaneous battles of Viasma and Briansk Began with the roar of panzer cannon and anti-tank guns. The riflemen of the 1st Company, 3rd Rifle Regiment, cling like grapes to the troop carriers. Why walk While there is no shooting? And the troop carriers of the 1st Company can carry quite a number.Up front Leutnant Lohse is travelling in the command truck of the 1st Company. “Look for the dogs, Eikmeier” he orders his driver. “Dogs?” remarks the corporal. “Why watch out for dogs, Herr Leutnant?” Corporal Ostarek, the machine-gunner, also looks up surprised. “Dogs?” He says.
Lohse shrugs his shoulders. “Three Russian prisoners were handed over to the regiment yesterday. Each had a dog. They said they were members of a Special Unit who led dogs carrying high explosive charges into action against tanks.” Living mines! Ostarek laughs briefly. “That’s as good an item of latrine news as I’ve ever heard,” he said. “If it hadn’t been the regimental commander who warned Captain Peschke and me, I wouldn’t have mentioned it,” Lohse replied apologetically. “Anyway, you’ve been warned.”
The trucks are driving across a broad field. Russian machine-gun fire can be heard on the left, from advanced positions along the edge of the sprawling village. The 3.7 cm anti-tank guns open up. The riflemen of the 3rd Company have jumped off their carriers and advance on foot. Hand-grenades are being hurled into the wooden shacks. Near the church some well-camouflaged positions between the shacks come into view. Unteroffizer Dreger checks a party of Russians with his machine-gun.
Suddenly Eikmeier shouts, “A dog!”
The dog is running at top speed. On his back ne carries a strange-looking saddle. Before Ostarek can bring his machine-gun into action, Captain Peschke has fired his rifle from the other side at 300 yards range. The dog leaps into the air and collapses, in a heap.
Suddenly Corporal Muller shouts, “Look out! Another one!” A lovely Alsation dog approaches cautiously. Ostarek fires and misses. The dog lowers his tail and turns back...
“Radio was warning, Muller,” Lohse orders. “Dora 10... Attention everybody, watch out for mine dogs!”
Mine dogs! A new word has been coined on the spur of the moment and it will go down in history as a new highly debatable weapon of the Soviets.
The dogs carried two linen saddlebags filled with explosives. An upright wooden stick, four inches long, acted as a mechanical fuse. The dogs had been trained to run under the tanks and as soon as the stick bent or broke the load on their backs exploded.
The 3rd Panzer Division did not suffer any losses in their encounter with these “living mines” of the Moscow Rifle Company, but two days later General Nehring’s 18th Panzer division were not so lucky...’
Soviet war literature does not mention this diabolical weapon but there is little doubt that mine-dogs were tried out. Interrogation of the captured dog-leaders by the 3rd Panzer Division revealed that the Moscow Rifle Company was equipped with 108 dogs. They were trained with tractors. The dogs had to get their food from under the tractors while the engines were running. If they refused they went hungry. They were hungry when brought into action and ran under the tanks where they hoped to find food.
Sawing off people's heads with a dull knife and hanging burned up Americans from a rusty bridge is one thing, but blowing up 'ol shep is another....
Mr. Terrorist....you are in big trouble now, and you better cut that out!....we'er really, really, REALLY, REALLLLLYYYYY mad....
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