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U.S. forces rely on dogs to detect bombs in Iraq. Insurgents rig them with explosives.
newsday.com ^ | August 10, 2005 | By Borzou Daragahi

Posted on 08/10/2005 9:11:15 AM PDT by BigFinn

BAGHDAD -- These are the dogs of war.

At a checkpoint leading to the U.S.-protected Green Zone, Gordy stands sentry. The affable Belgian Malinois has a nose finely tuned to detect the nitrates, plastic explosives, gunpowder and detonation cords that suicide bombers use to blow up people.

On a barren stretch of road in northern Iraq, a dog rigged with explosives approaches a group of Iraqi police officers. Detonated by remote control, the bomb tears the dog apart but doesn't harm the cops.

In a war where the line between civilian and soldier is blurred, even man's best friend has been caught up in the combat. U.S. forces hail their trained dogs as heroes, but to insurgents, canines provide the means for a more sinister goal.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: doggieping; dogsofwar; ied; iraq; militarydogs; oif; workingdogs; wot
Abdel Salam Kubaisi, a spokesman for the Muslim Scholars Assn., a hard-line Sunni Arab clerical organization sympathetic to insurgents, called the practice un-Islamic. "Our religion does not permit us to hurt animals," he said, "neither by using them as explosive devices nor in any other manner."

More Islamic confusion.

1 posted on 08/10/2005 9:11:16 AM PDT by BigFinn
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To: BigFinn
Detonated by remote control, the bomb tears the dog apart but doesn't harm the cops.

How many bitches does the dog get in doggy heaven?

2 posted on 08/10/2005 9:16:20 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: Mike Darancette

72. same as what the sons a bitches get.


3 posted on 08/10/2005 9:18:23 AM PDT by marvlus
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To: marvlus

They get 72 Helen Thomases, Molly Ivins, and Amy Goodmans?


4 posted on 08/10/2005 9:27:02 AM PDT by HKaddict
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Where's PETA? We shouild send them over to Iraq to protest this.


5 posted on 08/10/2005 9:39:55 AM PDT by kalee
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To: BigFinn

Why does this surprise anyone? Muslims consider the dog unclean and respect it no more than the pig.


6 posted on 08/10/2005 9:44:56 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: HairOfTheDog

Dog Ping.


7 posted on 08/10/2005 9:50:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: BigFinn
This story was also posted under different title already:

Canines Get Drafted for Iraq Combat

8 posted on 08/10/2005 9:57:42 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: BigFinn
"Our religion does not permit us to hurt animals," he said, "neither by using them as explosive devices nor in any other manner."

You can bet that if the occasion had arisen in Mohammed's lifetime that he'd have benefited from harming animals Allah would have condoned it through a stamp-of-approval "revelation". It just wasn't relevant to Mohammed's slef-enrichment program, or he definitely would have had a revelation about it post haste.

9 posted on 08/10/2005 9:58:06 AM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: HairOfTheDog
When I read that title, I thought our dogs were being drafted. My dog's name is Lt. Commander Harmon Rabb. I was wondering if he had to sign up for the draft. ??
10 posted on 08/10/2005 2:44:50 PM PDT by Goodgirlinred ( GoodGirlInRed Four More Years!!!!!)
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To: marvlus

72. same as what the sons a bitches get...

LOL. I needed that laugh. Thanks.


11 posted on 08/10/2005 2:55:03 PM PDT by UltraKonservativen (( YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID ))
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To: BigFinn

Just shows you how low a muslim can go, lower than dogs.


12 posted on 08/10/2005 2:58:22 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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"Our religion does not permit us to hurt animals,"

Guess he never watched Bedouin Arabs break the hind legs of kangaroo rats, to "hobble" them until dinner time; then douse gasoline over them and set them on fire.

Kills them, de-hairs them, and cooks them, them all in one step. Of course, they still need to gutted afterwards, but that is easy, since the belly usually pops open.

Just one of their many kitchen tip & tricks.

13 posted on 08/10/2005 4:23:42 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Marching Morons are coming...and they're breeding more Democrats beyond all reason!)
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To: kalee
Where's PETA? We shouild send them over to Iraq to protest this.

They would be more concerned about the on-going "slavery" of our bomb-sniffing dogs, than about 'a quick, painless death' of an otherwise unwanted cur.

14 posted on 08/10/2005 4:26:35 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Marching Morons are coming...and they're breeding more Democrats beyond all reason!)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Good point.


15 posted on 08/10/2005 4:36:29 PM PDT by kalee
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To: BigFinn

If I was running the show over there...

When the chicken$&!tislamosheetheads get caught with the makings for IED's or any other act of war first they get handcuffed and our K9 units get to piss on them, then they get to watch the IED makings get piled up and rigged to blow and lastly they get put on top of the pile with a deadman switch between the feet (with a safety till our Guys are clear of the area) while the whole thing is broadcast on local TV.


16 posted on 08/10/2005 4:46:11 PM PDT by ChefKeith (If Diplomacy worked, then we would be sitting here talking.)
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To: kalee
Where's PETA? We shouild send them over to Iraq to protest this.

Because PETA approves of these actions


17 posted on 08/14/2005 6:05:13 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: BigFinn

"How can they use these lovely pets for criminal and murderous acts?" asked Rasha Khairir, 25, an employee of a Baghdad stock brokerage. "A poor dog can't refuse what they are doing with him because he can't think and decide."

Because they are running out of 'glorious' suicide bomber boys between 15-25.


18 posted on 08/14/2005 6:14:49 PM PDT by iThinkBig
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