Michael Yon posted this on his Facebook page and I had to put this up on the blog. This story is straight out of China, and I have no clue what they were trying to do here. They certainly succeeded in giving us all a good chuckle. I don’t know if PETA has made a statement yet, but I certainly hope they will protest monkeys being used by the Taliban for war fighting. lol –Matt
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Monkeys trained as battlefield killers in Afghanistan
July 09, 2010
Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents are training monkeys to use weapons to attack American troops, according to a recent report by a British-based media agency.
Reporters from the media agency spotted and took photos of a few “monkey soldiers” holding AK-47 rifles and Bren light machine guns in the Waziristan tribal region near the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The report and photos have been widely spread by media agencies and Web sites across the world.
According to the report, American military experts call them “monkey terrorists.”
As a form of cruel political means, wars are launched to meet political goals through conquest, devastation, assaults and other means.
In a sense, the emergence of “monkey soldiers” is the result of asymmetrical warfare. The United States launched the war in Afghanistan using the world’s most advanced weapons such as highly-intelligent robots to detect bombs on roadsides and unmanned aerial vehicles to attack major Taliban targets. In response, the Taliban forces have tried any possible means and figured out a method to train monkeys as “replacement killers” against American troops.