Saturday, May 26, 2012


Transmission

Catching Terrorists Using Snickers Bars

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From the Russian "Izvestia" daily:

For the whole summer Caucasus was shaking. Wahhabis arranged terrorist acts against the police, hunted the top-ranking officials of the republics, killed an interior minister and blew up a car of President Yevkurov.

Afterwards roads were covered with snow and the paths were blocked. According to available information, a part of the detachment of Doku Umarov went abroad through the mountains of Dagestan to spend winter there.

Not the whole detachment leaves usually. A few tens of militants may hide in Chechen gorges. Now when mountain passes are covered with snow and delivery of food from abroad is impossible, bandits eat snickers bars.

This is a nutritious and compact product. They even cook a soup from it. That is why special control is established over supply of this strategic product. Those who buy more than five bars at once are under special control.

-- Bruce Pannier
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by: borz from: UK
February 05, 2010 17:31
In Scotland they deep fry 'Mars Bars'. Nobody bothers to arrest the offender. They know he will meet a sticky end. Heart Attack after 2 bars are not uncommon...

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