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Monkeys with machine guns?

Stars & Stripes reports that the photo of the baboon firing what looks like sort of like a SAW actually omits that the beast was on a leash and the "weapon" is a toy. I don’t think monkeys would like living in Afghanistan anyway, except maybe around Jalalabad. UPDATE: FP‘s editors point out that their ...

By , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.
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Stars & Stripes reports that the photo of the baboon firing what looks like sort of like a SAW actually omits that the beast was on a leash and the "weapon" is a toy.

Stars & Stripes reports that the photo of the baboon firing what looks like sort of like a SAW actually omits that the beast was on a leash and the "weapon" is a toy.

I don’t think monkeys would like living in Afghanistan anyway, except maybe around Jalalabad.

UPDATE: FP‘s editors point out that their own Brian Fung actually was all over this first

Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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