08:44 pm - Canada's battle 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'."
01:27 pm - Надумалось Израиль проиграл. Проиграл пожалуй по всем параметрам: потеря жизни, средств, лица. Даже за месяц самая опытная армия на планете не смогла устранить угрозы: в течении последнего дня перед "перемирием" на страну упало самое большое количество ракет за всю историю конфликта. Теперь уже и мне очевидно что настало время новых воин, где для победы (возможность которой надо еще доказать) нужны другие совершенно другие средства нежели корабли и танки.
Мне так же не понятно почему все только сейчас вспохватились из за жидких бомб (или как их там русские СМИ решили называть). В какой жопе сидели все эти профи-пиротехники которые сейчас в один голос рассказывают о легкости создания таких фейерверков? Разве раньше такое было не возможно? Кому то это все выгодно.
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Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of marijuana plants 10 feet tall.
