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Animal Warfare: Could the Taliban Train Monkeys to Shoot?
Foxnews ^
| 7/27/10
| LiveScience
Posted on 07/27/2010 1:05:02 PM PDT by Cheesel
A bizarre report of Taliban insurgents training monkeys and baboons to shoot at U.S. and NATO soldiers in Afghanistan seems unrealistic at best, according to an expert.
The story that appeared this month in the Chinese People's Daily suggested that insurgents used a reward-and-punishment system to train macaques and baboons to target soldiers wearing U.S. military uniforms. The Taliban supposedly "taught monkeys how to use the Kalashnikov, Bren light machine gun and trench mortars," the People's Daily wrote.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; animals; apes; baboon; gorillawarfare; gwot; macaca; macaque; monkeys; primates; taliban
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It's gorilla guerilla warfare!
Wouldn't humans all look alike to monkeys?
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posted on
07/27/2010 1:05:05 PM PDT
by
Cheesel
To: Cheesel
Someone trained one to eat ice cream cones
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posted on
07/27/2010 1:07:41 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom sarc ;))
To: Cheesel
**Wouldn’t all humans look alike?**
Wear Old Spice - that should confuse them!!!!
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posted on
07/27/2010 1:08:08 PM PDT
by
sodpoodle
(Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption)
To: Cheesel
Send them to S. Central LA or Detroit.
To: Cheesel
When will Peta get involved? They wouldn’t want monkeys using guns.
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posted on
07/27/2010 1:08:55 PM PDT
by
LottieDah
(If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
To: Cheesel
Could the Taliban Train Monkeys to Shoot?
Yes...but not very well. And PETA will definitely be all over them./s
To: Cheesel
Do they shoot before or after they write the collected works of Shakespeare?
To: Cheesel
Duh. Silly question, really...
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posted on
07/27/2010 1:11:22 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Cheesel
i have always assumed they were trained monkeys anyway.
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posted on
07/27/2010 1:11:52 PM PDT
by
ronniesgal
( I miss George Bush. Hell, I miss Bill Clinton!!)
To: al baby
Some jokes just write themselves.
To: Cheesel
Just put plastic explosives in their food.
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posted on
07/27/2010 1:12:02 PM PDT
by
freedomlover
(Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
To: Cheesel
“Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!”
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posted on
07/27/2010 1:12:05 PM PDT
by
astyanax
(Liberalism: Logic's retarded cousin.)
To: Cheesel
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posted on
07/27/2010 1:12:05 PM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Live jubtabulously!)
To: Cheesel
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posted on
07/27/2010 1:13:43 PM PDT
by
freedomlover
(Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
To: Cheesel
Animal Warfare: Could the Taliban Train Monkeys to Shoot?They trained muslims to wear explosives, didn't they??
To: Cheesel
"
Warfare: Could the Taliban Train Monkeys to Shoot?,"
After careful research and consideration, the answer is:
YES!
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posted on
07/27/2010 1:15:06 PM PDT
by
FrankR
(It doesn't matter what they call us, only what we answer to....)
To: Cheesel
Let 'em - Obama already has a contingency plan in place for our soldiers if they do...
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posted on
07/27/2010 1:16:42 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Never trust anyone who points their rear end at God while praying.)
To: freedomlover
To: Cheesel
If they made grenades that looked like monkey poop our troops would be in trouble.
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posted on
07/27/2010 1:18:05 PM PDT
by
lakeman
(,)
To: Cheesel
Not that far-fetched —
I had a Drill Sergeant that repeatedly remarked that he could train a monkey to shoot - better than I could, anyway... ;)
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posted on
07/27/2010 1:20:20 PM PDT
by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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