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WeAz
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 Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:26 pm Giant Plants |
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| Quote: | OTTAWA, Canada (Reuters) -- Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of marijuana plants 10 feet tall.
General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defense staff, said 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, Canada.
"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," Hiller 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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Lord Borg
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| Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:31 pm |
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So in other words, they got high from the smoke. Anyways, now we know what some of the funding comes from...
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Valathous
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| Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:16 pm |
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LOL!
That's hilarious.
They should just harvest it and sell it; get some extra funds for the military. It'll be legal in Canada once the Liberals retake Parliament anyways, so who cares? lol.
Or if they do manage to burn it down, the Taliban won't be much of a threat. Just throw in one of those Tickle-Me Elmo TMX's and they'll be giggling for hours.
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