Þriggja metra háir kannabisskógar valda herjum bandamanna í Afghanistan vandræðum

Rakst á þessa frétt hjá Reuters: "Troops battle 10-foot marijuana plants". Samkvæmt fréttinni eru kanadískar hersveitir í Afghanistan í mestu vandræðum með talíbana sem fela sig inní kannabísskógum. Skógarnir eru svo þykkir að kanadamennirnir þora ekki inn í þá af ótta við að verða fyrir launsátri. Rick Miller, yfirmaður kanadíska hersins í Afghanistan, segir farir sínar ekki sléttar:

"We tried burning [the forests] 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," Hillier said dryly.

Nú auðvitað hefur það "some ill effects" að standa undan vindi þegar brenndir eru 3 metra háir kannabisskógar!

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