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Morocco offers US monkeys to detonate mine
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."
You can tell people's attention spans have grown dangerously thin when wacky feature articles like this pop up within a week of the bombing. Next up on CNN: A profile of Flipper, the Navy's wacky dolphin pal. In one fell swoop, he'll sweep the harbor for mines and back-flip his way into your heart!