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Post by Kender on Oct 15, 2006 8:09:40 GMT -5
Troops battle PotDon't know if you caught thos at the CoG, so I thought I'd post it here.
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Post by outgirl on Oct 16, 2006 16:22:30 GMT -5
dude I can't get the link to work
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Post by Kender on Oct 16, 2006 16:30:26 GMT -5
Worked for me, but since this isn't CA...
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in
Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of 10-feet-high marijuana plants. ADVERTISEMENT
General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defense staff, said on Thursday that Taliban fighters were using the forests as cover. In response, the crew of at least one armored car had camouflaged their vehicle with marijuana.
"The challenge is that marijuana plants absorb energy, heat very readily. It's very difficult to penetrate with thermal devices ... and as a result you really have to be careful that the Taliban don't dodge in and out of those marijuana forests," he said in a speech in Ottawa.
"We tried burning them with white phosphorous -- it didn't work. We tried burning them with diesel -- it didn't work. The plants are so full of water right now ... that we simply couldn't burn them," he said.
Even successful incineration had its drawbacks.
"A couple of brown plants on the edges of some of those (forests) did catch on fire. But a section of soldiers that was downwind from that had some ill effects and decided that was probably not the right course of action," Hillier said dryly.
One soldier told him later: "Sir, three years ago before I joined the army, I never thought I'd say 'That damn marijuana'."
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Post by outgirl on Oct 16, 2006 17:49:08 GMT -5
. In response, the crew of at least one armored car had camouflaged their vehicle with marijuana. ; Well that's a use I never thought of before |
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Post by RS Davis on Oct 17, 2006 10:55:30 GMT -5
I knew I should have re-enlisted!
- R
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