So I’m humming along this morning, doing my thing, when I stumble across this petit morceau, dating from way back in January:
The U.S. army considered building a “gay bomb”, which could make enemy troops “sexually irresistible” to each other, government papers say.
And I think, “How the hell did I miss that, Mabel?” (I sometimes refer to myself as Mabel in the course of internal dialogues.)
Then I pause to consider the source of the story. I mean, yes, to many folks, Al Jazeera is a respected news outlet, but its website also features a section devoted entirely to conspiracy theories–most of which would be hilarious, if they were intended as fake news gags. (They’re not.) So I assume this “gay bomb” stuff is another bunch of hooey designed to entertain a readership with a cultural affinity for stories of subterfuge.
Wrong.
A quick check of the source materials, reveals that, lo-and-behold, Al Jazeera isn’t kidding. A declassified document from 1994 details the project, as well as many others, including chemical weapons that would make enemy combatants attractive to rodents, give them chronic bad breath, and cause hypersensitivity to sunlight.
All of which makes me wonder:
(A) Which of Al Jazeera’s other conspiracy theories are grounded in truth?
(B) Did Wright Labs build a prototype of the “love bomb”?
(C) If so, how can I get it to Edirne for the 2006 Kirkpinar?
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