Monkey see, monkey kill. That’s according to the newspaper The People’s Daily from China. I don’t know if the article is just mere ridicule of the Taliban in Afghanistan but it’s been published. Taliban terrorists have a secret weapon to destroy the infidel American enemy by training monkeys to become killer marksmen.

“The Taliban in Afghanistan is training monkeys to use weapons to attack American troops,” The People’s Daily reports. Islamic insurgents have drafted macaques and baboons to be all that they can be, arming them with AK-47 rifles, machine guns and trench mortars in the Waziristan tribal region near the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Some are even turned into long-range snipers at a secret Taliban training base. The monkeys are also rewarded with bananas and peanuts.

The newspaper says “photos have been widely spread by media agencies and Web sites across the world.”

One of those sites is the Pakistan Defense Forum, which has pictures of gun-toting monkeys, and makes the wild claim that a monkey-soldier program was first launched by the CIA in Vietnam.

“Today, the Taliban forces have given the American troops some of their own medicine,” The People’s Daily said.

I know monkeys are capable of a lot of amazing feats such as dressing up, walking on stilts and riding motorcycles but killing American soldiers  is “Absurd. I think it is a preposterous suggestion,” according to primate expert Dr. Sian Evans in an interview with CNN. She added that it is nearly impossible to train a monkey to complete simple tasks such as opening or closing doors let alone defining a target and shooting. Agreed, this just sounds like  serious monkey business.

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