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General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defence staff, said on Thursday that Taliban fighters were using the forests as cover. In response, the crew of at least one armored car had camouflaged their vehicle with marijuana."The challenge is that marijuana plants absorb energy, heat very readily. It's very difficult to penetrate with thermal devices … and as a result you really have to be careful that the Taliban don't dodge in and out of those marijuana forests," he said in a speech in Ottawa.
"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.
Also mir würde da spontan eine andere Möglichkeit einfallen, das da kurzfristig weg zu kriegen. Kurz ne Anzeige auf kiffer.de schalten und gut ist.Am Ende haben sie das dann doch noch angezündet gekriegt, mit vorhersagbaren Folgen:
[…]a section of soldiers that was downwind from that had some ill effects and decided that was probably not the right course of action.