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 ...
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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