Posted on 08/11/2007 9:31:40 PM PDT by Flavius
NAHR AL BARED, Lebanon -- Lebanese soldiers are being hampered in their fight against holed-up Islamist militants by the stench of putrefying corpses, army and medical sources said Saturday.
An officer on the ground who requested anonymity said that the rotting corpses littering the devastated Nahr Al Bared refugee camp had made the air there unbreathable.
A hospital source said several soldiers had been admitted due to severe vomiting.
However, the army continued sporadic shelling of Islamist positions though sustained casualties during mine-clearing operations on the ground, military sources added.
Two helicopters flew over the camp but did not open fire as they had on previous days, while the army blew up several buildings on the periphery of the small area of the camp still controlled by the Islamists.
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They’re sure it’s rotting corpses?
Just burn them already.
yes. the smell of living islamists is even worse.
Bring back napalm.
Or some damn yuppie at an oxygen bar, reading a story about Mideast turmoil in The New Yorker.
Ahhh, the smell of terrorists in the morning.
Extra crispy..
Problem solved!
Ain't the Middle East great!
I know exactly what they mean, the same thing happened to me about 20 years ago at Penn Station here in NYC. I was on a pay phone talking to my boss, when this homeless lady walked next to me checking the phones for change, and I swear to this day there is nothing I smelled worse. It was like the worst stink you could imagine, she must have had gangrene or something, and it was covered with this perfume not to mention the ton of makeup she was wearing, and for some reason the combination of the stink and this perfume just immediately got me sick, I started getting nauseous and it just got worse. I couldn`t get that smell out of my nose, and I just got sicker and sicker and went to bathroom and puked my guts out, so much that I started panicking because I couldn`t breathe. Then it got to the dry heaves over and over and over. It was really bizarre, like some kind of reflex was triggered in my brain. It took me about 3 days to get over that smell! I just could not get it out of my system. To his day any woman that wears strong perfume gets me sick, not to the point of vomiting, but enough to want me to get the hell away from that person. I don`t know if it is an allergic reaction or just something that reminds me of that vomit freak out.
They should send in hungry pigs and wild dogs to eat up the remains. Problem solved.
Eau de Martyr
Man, your story even got to me. She may have actually had gangrene or some putrefying sore. I’ve heard that the chemical compounds involved with rotting flesh have some real staying power.
And they’re supposedly soldiers?
It has to be a REALLY bad smell, because Lebanese Soldiers are some very though guys. They made a good impression on me when handling the “refugee camp” with the limited ressources they had.
Smear lots of Vick’s Vapo-Rub on their upper lip, just under the nose. LAPD cops do that a lot when they encounter similar situations.
Knew a Korean War vet that told me of cleaning up a battlefield, said it wasn’t real pleasant, they come apart when you try to pick ‘em up was how he put it. they used a grappling hook under the breast bone to drag enemy dead to a pit.
Oh man tell me about it, I thought I was going nuts because I could not get that damn smell out of my nose, my head. I remember taking a zillion showers and I kept changing my clothes, but I still couldn`t stop smelling it, it was just this horrible combination of rot and strong perfume and it just triggered these insane vomit spasms in me. And this stinky ass bitch was only next to me for about 30 seconds! lol! The military should look into that as a weapon, seriously. Just totally incapacitate the enemy with vomit fits.
Just happen to be on the phone with your boss?
Hmmmmm.
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