Taliban fighters are burying dirty needles with their bombs in a bid to infect British troops with HIV, The Sun UK reports.
Hypodermic syringes are hidden below the surface pointing upwards to prick bomb squad experts as they hunt for devices.
The heroin needles are feared to be contaminated with hepatitis and HIV. And if the bomb goes off, the needles become deadly flying shrapnel.
The tactic, used in the Afghan badlands of Helmand, was exposed by Tory MP and ex-Army officer Patrick Mercer.
Senior backbencher Mr Mercer said yesterday: “Are there no depths to which these people will stoop? This is the definition of a dirty war.”
Razor blades are also being used. All Royal Engineer and Royal Logistic Corps bomb search teams have been issued with protective Kevlar gloves.
(Source: Sun UK)
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Well, there is one way of dealing with this problem which the Russians learned, as did the British before them. Leave the country of Afghanistan!
doesnt make any sense, i think hiv virus would die within 1-5 minutes on a syringe. i think it would be impossible for hiv to live on a syringe for over 30 minutes. hepititus lasts longer though. this article doesnt make any sense at all, the likelyhood that a single person would be infected with anything at all with this method seems very very low, surely it would hurt the taliban more by waisting so much of there time.
But wait, the Israelis are the crazy ones! Arabs, no, they just want to make peace!