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Article: Fed: News stranger than fiction
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- March 7, 2003
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Fed: News stranger than fiction
By Doug Conway, Senior Correspondent
SYDNEY, March 7 AAP - It's a mad world, but is it getting madder?
These stories - all true - emerged weeks before April the First.
* Superpower deploys chooks in Gulf.
US troops going into battle in Iraq will use chickens to detect
chemicals or nerve
agents, much as canaries were once used down coalmines. The new elite
winged unit is a
back-up in case pollution from blown oil installations clogs up more
high-tech detection
equipment. The birds would quickly die if poisoned, acting as an early
warning system
known to soldiers as Kuwaiti Fried Chicken.
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