Dolphins can help War
... forces may have planted on the seabed. ¡°They were flown over on a military animal transporter in fleece-lined slings,¡± Tillotson said. ¡°We keep them in a certain amount of water. They travel very well.¡± ¡°They will be given restaurant quality food and vitamins, and they will work out of wells which we¡¯ve set up here.¡± Tillotson said the dolphins were trained not to swim up to mines, but to place a marker a small distance away, minimizing any danger to themselves. Several mines were discovered last week on the back of ships along the Faw peninsula, but teams of divers searching around Umm Qasr port since Monday have not found any embedded mines. The battle now beginning between U.S. forces and the Republican Guard¡¯s Medina Division to the southwest of Baghdad promises to be a decisive engagement that signals whether the new Gulf War will be over in a week or two or drag on for a month or more. UNTIL NOW, U.S. forces have fought regular Iraqi units and militias in small-unit skirmi...