By It looks like the the People’s Daily from China has taken journalism lessons from the Korea Times considering this absurd article:
Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents are training monkeys to use weapons to attack American troops, according to a recent report by a British-based media agency.
Reporters from the media agency spotted and took photos of a few “monkey soldiers” holding AK-47 rifles and Bren light machine guns in the Waziristan tribal region near the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The report and photos have been widely spread by media agencies and Web sites across the world.
According to the report, American military experts call them “monkey terrorists.”
As a form of cruel political means, wars are launched to meet political goals through conquest, devastation, assaults and other means.
In a sense, the emergence of “monkey soldiers” is the result of asymmetrical warfare. The United States launched the war in Afghanistan using the world’s most advanced weapons such as highly-intelligent robots to detect bombs on roadsides and unmanned aerial vehicles to attack major Taliban targets. In response, the Taliban forces have tried any possible means and figured out a method to train monkeys as “replacement killers” against American troops.
Analysts believe that apart from using “monkey killers” to attack the American troops, theTaliban also sought to arouse Western animal protectionists to pressure their governments to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. [People's Daily]
You can read the rest of this absurd article at the link, but the Atlantic Online has a pretty good response.
Banana Akhbar!
She hasn’t seen...
3:48 pm on July 12th, 2010 1
Q: What kind of guns do Taliban monkey soldiers use?
A: Rhesus Pieces
6:57 pm on July 12th, 2010 2
I saw this movie before. Roddy McDowell? Dr. Zaius? Taylor? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRG6ahCs_t0
8:49 pm on July 12th, 2010 3
I think the China daily misprinted their story. They meant the Talibans were attacking the monkeys.
10:42 pm on July 12th, 2010 4
Maybe the monkeys will find sympathy for their enemies through their mutual love for NASCAR. War’s over. Everyone can go home.
12:43 am on July 13th, 2010 5
The link to Poopy Daily doesn’t work. I guess they figured out they’d been pwned.
10:15 am on July 13th, 2010 6
I see two creatures in the photo above but I can't say precisely which one is the monkey and which one is the Taleban.
Maybe that´s what the report was meant to say, that Talebans look like monkeys, so "Monkeys" are being trained to fight the American soldiers …
Well, now surely my life is in danger because I dared to insult the Talebans calling them monkey, or maybe I will be killed by the monkeys because I dared to compare them to the Talebans ….
Well … regardless of who will kill me, I hope they give me enough time to live to see Korean winning a World Coup defeating Brazil in the final.
De Han Min Guk !!!!
10:19 am on July 13th, 2010 7
Maybe there was concern about the Taliban spanking the monkeys. Where is Ships Master Paul Watson and his crew of fatass asslickers when you need them?
1:52 pm on July 13th, 2010 8
The Taliban are really bored if that's what they are doing to keep themselves busy.
2:20 pm on July 13th, 2010 9
I learned one thing from this story: the rhesus monkey lives in Afghanistan. I wonder how it survives the winter.
9:21 am on July 14th, 2010 10
regardless of who will kill me, I hope they give me enough time to live to see Korean winning a World Coup defeating Brazil in the final.
Looks like you will have a very long life. Reino de España!
9:46 am on July 14th, 2010 11
You got it Leon.
I will live forever !!!!
10:26 am on September 16th, 2010 12
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