Taliban Train Monkeys Shoot, Really?

People's Daily claimed the U.S. had trained monkey army and sent to Vietnam.

A written horrendous news page news China, People's Daily two weeks ago - that the Taliban are training monkeys to shoot U.S. soldiers. Equipped with Kalashnikov guns, Bren machine guns, and mortars, the monkeys are taught to recognize and put a gun to the man who wore the uniform target U.S. military. "senior members of the U.S. military sources have confirmed about the existence of the Taliban monkey soldiers, military experts call armed monkeys as 'monkey terrorists'," the People's Daily published. People's Daily claimed the U.S. had done the same thing in the 1960s. " Between the 1960s and 1970s, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) trained 'monkey soldiers' armed to be sent in the Vietnam War. " Problem existence monkey army, it does not exist in any of the 90,000 Afghan war documents were leaked through the site Wikileak .

Justify the Taliban are training monkeys to use weapons?

As the page loaded LiveScience, scientists who spent his career memeliti social lives of non-human primates, doubted it. "Monkeys can be trained to turn off the lights, opened the water faucets, and so on - but in the end they ruin it," said William Mason, a psychologist and emiretus professor at the University of California, Davis."When we talk about the animals who go into battle or a fort, carrying AK-47 rifles or other weapons, it looks highly implausible." Humans have been using a variety of animals in previous wars, for example as a parasite carrier logistics, marine patrol, or bomb sniffing. However, what's been done before is very far from the idea of changing the primate into a mini army - who could use weapons and can decide where to direct the weapon."What is the most reasonable, tying explosives to the animal's body and send it in," said Mason. While, as pages loaded News.com.au, many media pointed out that the photo monkey holding a gun is engineered through Photoshop, and that the monkey was holding a toy gun. Stripes.com found that the weapon wielding baboon original photo - edited in such a way. Whereas the original, there are orange cork and rope in monkey held the rifle barrel. Picture was used by a U.S. military officer to look funny Power Point for training soldiers.however, when confirmed, the Chinese Embassy spokesman confirmed the government implemented strict rules on the media. " Chinese government strictly regulates that Chinese media organizations must report honestly, objectively and fairly in compliance with the code of professional conduct, "said Wang Baodong.