The Coming Man-Fish War: Part Deux

Sharpen the tridents. Mend the nets. It's on:

It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico...

Leo Sheridan, 72, a respected accident investigator who has worked for government and industry, said he had received intelligence from sources close to the US government's marine fisheries service confirming dolphins had escaped.

'My concern is that they have learnt to shoot at divers in wetsuits who have simulated terrorists in exercises. If divers or windsurfers are mistaken for a spy or suicide bomber and if equipped with special harnesses carrying toxic darts, they could fire,' he said. 'The darts are designed to put the target to sleep so they can be interrogated later, but what happens if the victim is not found for hours?'

These dolphins were sleepers.

(Part I here. And before you know-it-alls start in with the pro-dolphin lobby's "Dolphins are mammels" propaganda, look at one. You know what side they're on. Fins=Fish. Know your enemy.)

posted by Dr. Reo Symes at 07:10 PM

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