Report Claims Afghan Taliban 'Trains Gun-Toting Monkeys'

(The New York Post) - Taliban terrorists created a secret weapon to destroy the infidel American enemy -- monkey marksmen, the New York Post reported Tuesday with more than a hint of skepticism.

According to Chinese newspaper the People’s Daily, the Afghanistan Taliban was “training monkeys to use weapons to attack American troops.”

The newspaper’s bizarre story said the Islamic insurgents drafted macaques and baboons, arming them with AK-47 rifles, machine guns and trench mortars in the Waziristan tribal region near the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Monkeys were being turned into snipers -- with the help of rewards in the form of bananas and peanuts -- at a secret Taliban training base, the People's Daily claimed.

The newspaper said, “photos have been widely spread by media agencies and websites across the world.”

One of those sites was the Pakistan Defence Forum, which showed pictures of gun-toting monkeys and reiterated the wild claim that a monkey-soldier program was first launched by the CIA during the Vietnam War.

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

Source: The New York Post