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There have been at least twoseveral documented incidents of '''[[donkey]]s''' and other [[beasts of burden]] being used to deliver [[improvised explosive device|bombs]]. BothAll have occurred in [[Middle East]]ern conflicts in the [[2000s]].

==Lebanon==

After the [[1982 invasion of Lebanon|1982 invasion]] of [[Lebanon]] by [[Israel]], [[Shiite]] militants turned to suicide attacks to drive out the Israeli army. On one occasion, a [[mule]] was used to carry out a suicide attack [http://www.tkb.org/Incident.jsp?incID=4286]. Other times, bombers were intercepted with explosives hidden on themselves while they were riding donkeys.

==West Bank==

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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 anybodyanyone but itself. The incident, along with a number of similar incidents involving dogs, fuelled 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]]."

==See also==