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Clooney's Men Who Stare at Goats 'based on real US army experiments'.


Byline: ANI

London, Oct 23 (ANI): It has emerged that actor George Clooney's new movie 'The Men Who Stare At Goats', which portrays soldiers in Iraq attempting to kill goats only by staring at them, is based on real US military experiments.

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 the Daily Mail, Project Jedi Project Jedi is an alleged project undertaken by the United States military in the late 1970s to create a super soldier that would possess superior strength, intelligence, cunning, and intuition by utilizing neuro-linguistic programming techniques.  was a top-secret military project to create a breed of "super-soldier" who would be fantastically strong and possess superior intelligence, cunning and intuition.

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, and effortlessly kill with the power of thought alone.

The soon-to-be-released Hollywood blockbuster, starring George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter who gained fame as the lead doctor in the long-running television drama, ER  and Ewan McGregor, also depicted the soldiers as having the ability to become invisible at will and to walk through walls.

But now it has emerged that the US military did try to create such a breed of super soldiers.

"You have to understand that these ideas were not considered wacky," the Telegraph quoted Sergeant Glenn Wheaton, a Special Forces soldier seconded to Project Jedi, as saying.

"They were seen as the next military frontier. We needed to know whether it was possible to use paranormal paranormal,
adj 1. outside the realm of normal experience or scientific explanation.
n 2. collective term for anomalous phenomena.
 forces for military ends. We also needed to know how to protect ourselves should they be used against us," he added. (ANI)

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