Are bomb-sniffing pigs kosher?

[dArKeR]

Jerusalem - Rabbis in Israel have been asked to approve plans to train pigs to guard West Bank settlements in a bid to thwart would-be Palestinian attackers from gaining "martyrdom", the Maariv daily said Tuesday.

Directors of the Gdud Haivri, an organisation which supplies guard dogs to settlements in the West Bank, believe that pigs' more developed sense of smell will enable them to sniff out militants who hide before launching attacks.

"Pigs' sense of smell is far more developed than that of dogs," the firm's chief executive Gdud Haivri Yekutiel Ben-Yaakov told the paper.

"The pigs will also be able to identify weapons from huge distances, and walk in the direction of the terrorist, thereby pointing him out.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1436780,00.html

[drdon326]

1. Cool !!

Reminds me of that kid on PA-TV who said jews were
descendants of "pigs and monkeys".

Hey, if you cant EAT EM, hire them.

[papau]

2. pig blood spray/clouds/fall out from Arab terrorist bombs - WMD?

I rather like the idea! How far will the deadly pig blood cloud carry its WMD drops over the West Bank and Gaza? Of course their will be the same shudder in Israel and the same need for cleaning - sort of a MAD (mutual assurred destruction)game plan for the mid-east!

:-)

[rini]

4. talk about flying pigs!

[Jim Sagle]

3. This thread shows that Mideast progress is possible...

when neither side hogs the spotlight. ;-)