Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Not from the Onion

Really.

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."