- DESERT AIRSTRIP, Southern Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. Marine trucks armed with anti-tank weapons
tore into the desert from a Marine base in southern Afghanistan on
Wednesday
to chase down an ``unidentified vehicle'' which turned out to be -- a
camel.
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- When news of the alert first came through, the Marines
on the defensive line around the perimeter put on flak jackets and helmets
and realigned their mortars in case they were called to fire on the target
two miles (three km) out.
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- The tension in the air subsided when the word came
through.
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- "How come you can't tell a vehicle from a
camel?"
asked one Marine in a company control center, a hole in the sand.
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- "One has wheels, the other has legs," another
Marine threw in. "I can't believe we're chasing damn camels around
the desert," said another.
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- Some of the Marines on the line reported that a camel
poked its nose into their fighting hole the previous night and Marine
spokesman
Captain Stuart Upton said shots had been fired to scare it away from the
airstrip.
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- It was not clear if the camel that sparked the morning
alert was the same one.
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