Now, THAT's some weapon!

When I was in Iraq there was a group which translated the Arab press into English. As part of this effort, there was a weekly download by the translators about rumors they had picked up in the coffeehouses and marketplaces.

Most of the rumors had a basis in (a) "It is the Americans punishing us for ...", or (b) "It is the Mossad [the Israeli Intelligence Service]..., or (c) both.

The daily summary of the translations was/is published in a document named "The Baghdad Mosquit0." All of this because today's Mosquito contained the following translated from the newspaper Al-Mashriq:

US Army Reveals They Have Developed A Sex Weapon

Summary: The US has been using everything possible to defeat their enemies. Recently, the US Air Force revealed that they have been working to produce a chemical material to be the main component of a bomb that can be sprayed using aircraft to make their enemies think about sex and to turn them into homosexuals.

This is real news that has been confirmed by the biological weapons supervision group in Austin, Texas. They confirmed that the US military has been working to produce this biological material. The research was on a CD that was produced by the American military in 2000. The CD and some documents were handed over to the International Scientific Academy in 2002. The document said that this project cost 7.5 million dollars.

The project named “Sunshine” includes that the military will produce chemical materials to spray on enemy locations. This weapon is not lethal but it has a strong sexual effect because the chemicals make the enemy have homosexual feelings.

Author: Not Given

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Which gave me a good laugh. Oh, how these rumors get started!

Then, I came across this from the BBC Website

The US military investigated building a "gay bomb", which would make enemy soldiers "sexually irresistible" to each other, government papers say.

Yikes!