Posted on 11/29/2014 1:51:33 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Police defuse a bird bomb in northern Afghanistan
For the first time Afghan police discover and defused a bomb which was planted in a bird’s body in northern Faryab province.
Faryab is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, which is located in the north of the country bordering neighboring Turkmenistan.
According to local police, the suspicious bird was flying over a police check point on Faryab- Jawzjan high way in Shereen Tagab distract, when police start tracking it.
“The bird which also had a GPS on the top of his head was used by unknown sources possibly Taliban against the police forces, Ahmadullah an afghan public order police solder said.
“They tried to divert the animal but it eventually had to be stopped with a rifle shot. A team went out and realized there was something suspicious under the bird. One brave soldier set it on fire to the bird with a sniper and there was a considerable explosion. (sic)
“No-one was hurt thanks to the swift action taken and they were saved from a very unusual attack.” He said. (sic)
According to Ahmadullah, it is first time that they faced with that this kind of bomb which was suppose to use against governmental institution by planting in a wild bird .
Afghan police target the bird by sniper soon after identify it as a bomber and explode a few meters a way above the police chick point. (sic)
It is not clear yet who had plan to use this bird as a bomber against afghan police but Faryab province is one of those area in northern Afghanistan which is recently wetness of Taliban and Al-Qaida activities . (sic)
But the incident has alarmed military chiefs concerned that the Taliban are now using desperate methods to attack occupying forces.
This is the first time that insurgents use a bird to lunch (sic) bomb attack on afghan forces, before that the Taliban use donkeys to launch bomb attacks on afghan and international forces in Afghanistan . (sic)
Well ... if they have graduated up to birds, it seems as though they are getting smarter; I'll give them that.
Maybe we could ship a whole bunch of ALF types to the area and watch the fun begin.
Someone scream this story to PETA.
Homing pigeons is the answer...: )
PETA wouldn’t care — they would say the animal died a good death killing people who wanted to cook it for dinner.
I’m going to have to call BS on this one.
For having been exploded, there is sure a lot left to this bird, like all of it. What next, mice with firecrackers?
What species is that? I mean I may need to be extra careful if I decide to go for a Big Year in 2015.
Police chick point?
“Well, have you heard about the bird?”
.” One brave soldier set it on fire to the bird with a sniper and there was a considerable explosion. (sic)”
the bird in those photos was no where near a “considerable explosion”
Well, it’s a lot cheeper ;-) than drones. Historical note, Persians did use homing pigeons for message sending if I remember correctly. Is this a Birdstastrophe?
So... they really want us to revise the old “bat bombs” from ww2?
In the movie "Wanted", a truckload of hundreds of rats each with attached bombs were set loose on a warehouse of enemy combatants.
Maybe they sent the birds draft numbers.
That does not look like a carcass in which a considerable explosion occurred. Also, taking out a flying bird by rifle? Possible, but difficult.
That looks like a trained falcon. Prominent leg band, radio tracker (not a GPS device attached to its head), I have seen this setup before on falcons or other domesticated raptor.
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