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["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

from: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/fireproof_forests/

Taliban monster dope plants defy Canadian military
Fireproof Afghan marijuana
By Lester Haines → More by this author
Published Friday 13th October 2006 10:09 GMT

Afghanistan's fun-loving Taliban have deployed a hitherto unknown
tactic in evading detection in their war against allied forces: take
refuge in 10-foot high, fireproof marijuana forests.

Despite Canadian troops' best efforts to burn down the monster dope
plantations, the weed continues to offer excellent cover for the
insurgents, Reuters reports.

General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defence staff, admitted
yesterday: "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."

And when they did manage to get a fire going, the results were
predictable. Hillier added: "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."

As one grunt later told Hillier: "Sir, three years ago before I joined
the army, I never thought I'd say 'that damn marijuana'." (r)
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