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  • Animal lovers up in arms over US use of dolphin deminers in Iraq

    03/26/2003 1:17:34 AM PST · by HAL9000 · 38 replies · 433+ views
    Agence France-Presse | March 26, 2003
    PARIS (AFP) - The US military's use of trained dolphins to help demine southern Iraqi waters ran into crossfire on Tuesday from animal-rights groups and biologists, who branded the scheme both unethical and unreliable. "We are strongly opposed to keeping these mammals in captivity, and we're not happy with this exploitation," Cathy Williamson of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, a British-based agency, told AFP. "The animals could get hurt, and that's not justified," Williamson said. Stephanie Boyles, a wildlife biologist at the US campaign group PETA (People for the Ethical Treaty of Animals), slammed the US military for...