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sendoilplease on October 13, 2006 - 8:43am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Afgans have a good cellulose source and the Cunucks try to destroy it... go figure.

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Canada Troops Battle 10-ft Afghan Marijuana Plants

..."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," Hillier 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'."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061012/wl_canada_nm/canada_canada_marijuana_col;_ylt=Ajq8M_5I7cingqJnjg tuceJvaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM-

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tate423 on October 13, 2006 - 9:35am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Misplaced ignorance in the USA.
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rlaws on October 13, 2006 - 10:27am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Note they are burning the crops due to militant's ability to use it for cover and camouflage, rather than any ideological reason.
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tate423 on October 13, 2006 - 11:33am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
True.  It is also interesting to note that they hide in the forest of pot b/c of the heat signature of a pot field is high and they blend in.  Nature is awesome!
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fleam on October 13, 2006 - 10:29pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
NOT cover and concealment, just cover. Concealment is protection against bullets. Like hiding behind some rocks, a good earth berm, etc. Concealment means it just hides you. Cover & Concealment is both - a good deal.

The maryjane is just good to hide in.

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fleam on October 13, 2006 - 10:30pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
OK wait got the words wrong, ... this is an important concept or will be in the US when we do "the Yugoslavia" so learn this good.....

Cover - protects you against bullets
Concealment - hides you

Cover & Concealment - does both.

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