Donkey bombs new Iraqi weapon

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

The Baghdad donkey bomb was a bust, but it - and rockets fired from donkey carts - showed an increasingly "adaptive" and "ingenious enemy," a U.S. commander said.
Iraq rebels fired up to three rockets from a cart early yesterday at Baghdad's Palestine Hotel - home to many journalists and U.S. civilian workers - one of which missed and hit the nearby Sheraton, said Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt.

Almost simultaneously, at least seven rockets were fired from another cart at the Iraqi Oil Ministry, setting parts of it ablaze but injuring no one, he said.

Two more rocket-armed carts were found and defused near a political party headquarters and a law school.

The terrorists even booby-trapped a burro pulling one of the rickety platforms with an "improvised explosive device" made from a propane tank, but U.S. troops defused the bomb, Kimmitt said. They rescued all four of the beasts of burden, though one was badly singed by rockets.

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This is a headline I thought I would never see. I'm sure it's a delivery system that CentCom has overlooked.

[moondust]

1. Hmmm...somewhat reminiscent of people in black pajamas riding bicycles.

Without the jungle of course.

[0rganism]

2. What? Unleash the Donkey Kong!

We will roll barrels down upon their unsuspecting heads!

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

3. .

My, that's one destructive ass...

Rocket Propelled Ass Grenades? There's nothing in our arse-nal that can stop THAT!

[izzie]

4. Nice slap in the butt of a 40M dollar tank.

Do we need a bigger tank? Or maybe just some brains.

[underpants]

5. Four legs good two legs bad

Why is my cat snarling at me......sssh something might be up.

[HairyPoppins]

6. Has PETA made a statement in support of the donkeys?

Now would be a good time to speak out for the welfare of donkeys.

[54anickel]

10. Not yet, but I'm sure they will. Have in the past. I'll go like this...

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_748025.html

"If you have the opportunity, will you please add to your burdens my request that you appeal to all those who listen to you to leave the animals out of this conflict?"

Ms Newkirk says she has not asked Mr Arafat to try to stop suicide bombings that kill people.

"It's not my business to inject myself into human wars," she told the Washington Post.

[doc03]

7. Kill all donkeys!

The US will now target a $1 Mil. bomb on each donkey in Iraq. This war is like trying to kill flies with a sledgehammer.

[dusty64]

8. Nothing like an animal cruelty

thread to bring the "funny" people out from under their rocks. Personally, this story disgusts me and I find NO humor in it at all. It is horrific that innocents (civilians, children, and animals) have to be killed and maimed in this war for corporate profits. Just the thought of all this insanity and the people who find it the butt of jokes makes me sick to my stomach.

[54anickel]

9. Israel did take a donkey cart out with a missle in August.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1031263,00.html

[criticalmass]

11. "It is, as yet, unclear whether the donkeys are foreign guerillas..."

so says the Iraqi woman who writes about life under occupation in a fascinating blog, Baghdad Burning:

The donkeys, looking guilty and morose, were promptly taken into custody for questioning and were not available for a statement...