You have no idea brother. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:39 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: OMFG :) Too funny, its 420 in Afghanistan!!! > > From Cnn.com > > http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/10/12/canada.troops.marijuana.reut/ > index.html > > Canada troops battle 10-foot Afghan marijuana plants > POSTED: 5:12 p.m. EDT, October 12, 2006 > > OTTAWA, Canada (Reuters) -- 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'." > > Copyright 2006 Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be > published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. > > -- > 'Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in thirty > seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner' > > robert deniro - heat (1995) > >
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