India's Hot New Anti-Terror Weapon: Spicy Chilly

Photo: Manish Swarup, AP. The Indian military has decided to use the world's hottest chili to make tear gas-like hand grenades. Here, a farmer holds one of peppers pulled from his field in the northeastern Indian state of Assam in 2007.
(March 23) -- The fight on terror is heating up in India, thanks to an innovative new weapon: the spiciest chilly in the world.

Terrorists wouldn't be forced to swallow it in deadly amounts, however. Loaded into a hand grenade, its smell alone would reportedly force them to surrender.

The chili grenade "is definitely going to be an effective nontoxic weapon because its pungent smell can choke terrorists and force them out of their hide-outs," a senior military scientist, R.B. Srivastava, was quoted as saying by The Associated Press.

The thumb-sized bhut jolokia chili pepper plant was given its No.1 spicy spot in 2007 by Guinness World Records. Spiciness is measured in Scoville units, and bhut jolokia has more than a million of them, compared with up to 8,000 for the jalapeño. It's nearly twice as hot as Mexico's red savina, the variety it replaced as the hottest.

The pepper is grown and eaten in northeastern India for its taste, as a cure for stomach troubles and to fight the summer heat, the news agency said.

"The chili grenade has been found fit for use after trials in Indian defense laboratories, a fact confirmed by scientists at the Defense Research and Development Organization," a defense spokesman, Col. R. Kalia, told the AP.

Srivastava, director of the DRDO's life sciences department in New Delhi, said trials were under way to produce aerosol sprays containing the spicy pepper.

Once developed, the police could use them to control unruly mobs, and women could defend themselves against attackers.
India's Hot New Anti-Terror Weapon: Spicy Chilly

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Experts from India's Defence Research and Development Organisation have already tested their new "grenade masala" in a series of "spice raids" close to the Line of Control which separates Indian and Pakistani forces in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region.

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Comment: The ideal weapon causes no physical injury but makes the terrorists weep for their sins. This technique should be used universally to combat terror.
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Once we smoke the terrorists out with our mirchi bombs and stench guns, we need to have a plan for their rehabilitation, a program where they will get a permanent amnesia of their evil plans, something that can totally screw their minds into thinking all is well with the world. For that, I recommend the Bollywood bomb, a proven screwer of minds and a dependable pulverizer of logic. Masala missiles and curry bombs