Morocco offers US monkeys to detonate mines

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Morocco offers US monkeys to detonate mine
From the International Desk
Published 3/24/2003 6:43 AM



RABAT, D.C., Morocco, March 24 (UPI) -- A Moroccan publication accused the government Monday of providing unusual assistance to U.S. troops fighting in Iraq by offering them 2,000 monkeys trained in detonating land mines.

The weekly al-Usbu' al-Siyassi reported that Morocco offered the U.S. forces a large number of monkeys, some from Morocco's Atlas Mountains and others imported, to use them for detonating land mines planted by the Iraqis.

The publication quoted a highly-informed source as saying, "that is not a scientific illusion but a well-known military tactic."

[Jerry D]

reminds me of the old joke about the Farmer and the prize pig , He trained a Monkey to pull corks :-) and the last thing the Farmer remembers is the Monkey trying to put the cork back in the behind of the Prize Pig :-)