Little Donkey Blown Up - How Can People Do This?

I am in shock, mum has told me what has happened to a little donkey in Afghanistan - now that is somewhere I do not want to go on holiday if this is how they treat my friends.


"The Afghan army platoon has received some information that the insurgents were going to try to strap an improvised explosive device to a donkey and send it towards camp. Donkeys do not have the reputation of being the most pliant animal so it was treated with some scepticism at first.

Then in the afternoon the gate guard realised that there was something suspicious going on. A group had just let go of a donkey a short way from camp and hurried off. He tried to divert the animal with flares and other warnings. Obstinacy not being the best quality in that situation, the beast of burden eventually had to be stopped by a rifle shot.

The team went out and established there was something very suspicious under the bundle of hay carried by the donkey. Eventually one brave A&A warrior set fire to the hay with a flare from a distance and 30 seconds later there was a considerable explosion.

No one was hurt, swift appropriate actoin had saved them from an unusual attack but it is impossible to report a donkey IED up the chain of commant without a rye small at the ridiculousness of it or a feeling that the world is slightly off its axis."

The world has gone totally bonkers using an innocent donkey as a bomb, I am crying in my cornflakes. This just confirms that I am one of the luckiest donkeys in the world, mum says no one is getting near me with TNT.