Good Buster
from the
Australian
bq. Dog gets Iraq bravery award
December 10, 2003
GOOD boy!
bq. Buster, a six-year-old Springer spaniel, earned more than a pat on the head overnight when he was awarded Britain's highest animal bravery medal for his role in breaking a resistance cell in Iraq.
bq. The British army canine received the Dickin Medal at a ceremony at London's Imperial Museum for discovering a cache of weapons and explosives in Safwan, southern Iraq, in March.
bq. Danny's handler, Sgt Danny Morgan, said the building was thought to be the headquarters of extremists responsible for attacks on British forces, and that Buster succeeded after soldiers found nothing.
bq. Buster quickly gave Morgan an indication he had found something by stopping and staring at a wardrobe. When the wardrobe was moved a piece of tin fell from the back to reveal a cavity.
bq. Inside were Russian AK47 assault rifles, a pistol, six grenades, ammunition, two kilograms of cocaine and propaganda material.
The cocaine is interesting... Knew that they exported heroin to finance their operations but didn't know they provided other crops (which don't really grow well in the Beka Valley) to their grunts on the ground.
Wonder where they are getting it from...
Posted by DaveH at December 9, 2003 11:07 PM