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Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips Taliban Training Monkey Terrorists? clipped by: tabsey clippers remarks: Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, as someone said ( and lots have repeated) Clip Source: news.discovery.com Monkeys have been trained by the Taliban in Afghanistan to use machine guns and trench mortars against U.S. military forces, reports Peoples Daily Online. According to this Chinese media story, monkeys can now operate the Kalashnikov, Bren light machine gun, and have the ability to identify and attack U.S. soldiers based on the appearance of their uniforms. The report indicates the Taliban was inspired by none other than the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, which it claims used peanuts and bananas to train "monkey soldiers" in Vietnam. This information was, in turn, attributed to a "British media" report from last month.  The story ends by saying, "A senior U.S. military source confirmed the existence of the Taliban monkey soldiers, military experts call armed monkeys monkey terrorists." So we have a story built on rumor, with no named sources, quoting a media source of unknown origin. Personally, I think a clever monkey could be behind the whole thing. Tags: believe, it, or, not zum Artikel... Afghan Follies: Deja vue all over again? clipped by: nedhamson1 clippers remarks: Many readers are not old enough to remember reports from the field in the Vietnam war, so you may not see that the two notes here on the huge number of contractors hired to help run the war and whether the current version of Special Forces is helping us "win." Paying all sorts of people in country get you dollar supporters who stay on your side as long as they think you are going to stay. Body counts of insurgent leaders killed are always meaningless in judging whether the enemy will or will not bounce back. Not the same war but similar mistakes being made. Clip Source: circlingthelionsden.blogspot.com Circling the Lions Den A glance at the conflict in Afghanistan The US Department of Defense has 19 per cent more contractor personnel (207, 600) in Iraq and Afghanistan than uniformed personnel (175,000), according to a recent report from the US Congressional Research Service. The figures for Afghanistan show that in March this year there were 112,092 contractors working for the DoD. Of these, 16,081 were US citizens and 17,512 were third-country nationals. The rest, 78,499, were Afghan nationals. US Special Operations Forces (SOF). US military officials have said that SOF raids have killed or captured 186 insurgent leaders and detained an additional 925 lower-level insurgents in the past 110 days. The raids have been particularly effective around Kandahar, they say, where there are "indications that IED attacks have decreased and that Taliban control appears to be weakening". It really does say this. Tags: afghanistan, circling, reports, special operations forces, us department zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de