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==Iraq==

In [[2004]], during the [[Iraq War]], a donkey in [[Ramadi]], [[Iraq]] was loaded with explosives and set off towards a US-run checkpoint. It exploded before it was able to injure or kill anyone but itself. The incident, along with a number of similar incidents involving dogs, fueled fears of terrorist practices of using living animals as weapons, a change from an older practice of using the bodies of dead animals to hold explosives. To one official, this was a simple variation of using "mentally retarded people for operations during the [[Iraqi legislative election, January 2005|elections]]." A colonel added that "using people and animals" was a terrorist tactic that seemed to be replacing [[car bombs]].{{Fact|date=May 2007}}

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