US turns to squirrels for national defense?

**Cyclonepride** · 07-20-2007, 04:20 PM

If nothing else, this just might freak them out a little. I say we unleash thousands of these little b*stards into Iran, North Korea and Syria with radio shack microphones strapped to their butts.

WorldBlog : Iran's spying squirrels?

**Wesley** · 07-20-2007, 06:31 PM

Sure those were not Israeli spies? They could also use rats. They have tons of them in iran.

**superfan** · 07-20-2007, 06:37 PM

Wouldn't be a stretch. The Brits are already using Badgers in Iraq...

BBC NEWS | Middle East | British blamed for Basra badgers

The scene in Basra this morning

**Wesley** · 07-20-2007, 06:42 PM

How about some Hawkeyes? Send Herky over.

**cyclonekj** · 07-20-2007, 09:00 PM

This is nuts.

**herbiedoobie** · 07-21-2007, 12:42 AM

The funny thing is, is that this Iranian "Urban Legend" may have been started by their spying on US. In the US Military Intelligence community, the slang-word for "spy" and "intelligence officer" is "Secret Squirrel", and the CIA/NSA/DIS is often referred to as "The Secret Squirrel Society". I even know guys in intel jobs who have had unit emblems and stationary that incorporated the squirrel as their symbol.

I imagine some overzealous Iranian intelligence officer picked up on the slang, added 1 and 1 and got 3, and now, Iranians are convinced that there are sensor equipped squirrels roaming Iran, spying on them....