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NEW YORK: The US-led forces fighting the Taliban fighters in Afghanistan might soon encounter 'gun-totting' monkeys, trained for 'jihad', if a rumour doing the rounds in the Chinese media is to be believed.
NATO officials and military experts have scoffed at the report originating in the Chinese media, which says that the Taliban are training monkeys to fight the US-led military.
The New York Post cited the state-run People's Daily as saying that the Taliban is "training monkeys to use weapons to attack American troops".
Ironically, the initiators of "monkey soldiers" are the Americans. Between the 1960s and the 1970s, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) trained massive "monkey soldiers" in the Vietnam War and dispatched armed monkeys to dangerous jungles to launch assaults on Vietnamese soldiers. Today, the Taliban forces have given the American troops some of their own medicine.
Originally posted by andrewsymonds
they are luring monkeys by giving them peanuts and bananas.......i hope the monkeys rebel against them.
I think they are running out of options or finance that is driving them to train animals.
Also last time i heard the news that they had successfully trained a bear against the Indian army but the bear instead killed two of their own commanders,this happened in Kashmir.
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Originally posted by andrewsymonds
they are luring monkeys by giving them peanuts and bananas.......i hope the monkeys rebel against them.