Posted on 07/12/2007 10:46:29 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy
British forces have denied rumours that they released a plague of ferocious badgers into the Iraqi city of Basra.
Word spread among the populace that UK troops had introduced strange man-eating, bear-like beasts into the area to sow panic. But several of the creatures, caught and killed by local farmers, have been identified by experts as honey badgers.
The rumours spread because the animals had appeared near the British base at Basra airport. UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said:
"We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.
"We have been told these are indigenous nocturnal carnivores that don't attack humans unless cornered."
The director of Basra's veterinary hospital, Mushtaq Abdul-Mahdi, has inspected several of the animals' corpses. He told the AFP news agency: "These appeared before the fall of the regime in 1986. They are known locally as Al-Girta.
"Talk that this animal was brought by the British forces is incorrect and unscientific."
Dr Ghazi Yaqub Azzam, deputy dean of Basra's veterinary college, speculated that the badgers were being driven towards the city because of flooding in marshland north of Basra. But the assurances did little to convince some members of the public.
One housewife, Suad Hassan, 30, claimed she had been attacked by one of the badgers as she slept.
"My husband hurried to shoot it but it was as swift as a deer," she said. "It is the size of a dog but his head is like a monkey," she told AFP.
I have a friend who describes them as “500 pounds of pure pissed-off in a 25 pound bag.”
This must be the Iraqi version of the trailer park housewife who stands outside in her bathrobe and curlers and tells the reporters about the tornado, or the aliens, or the chupacabra that ate her cat.
I wonder how one would stand up to a wolverine, I don’t think anything would actually think of going toe to toe with one of those, even a bear.
Never underestimate oriental superstition and conspiracy thinking. The more absurd the theory the more will believe it.
Seems to be a liberal trait aswell.
Now the Brits know what GW has to put up with - It’s all Bush’s fault! Now, It’s all the Brit’s fault! Me thinks they might be listening to too much MSM over there!
Have you seen this: Bat Bombs Away!
“As swift as a deer with the head of a monkey”
the local Mullah probably called round.
Can you blame them for attacking the Iraqi scum?
“”My husband hurried to shoot it but it was as swift as a deer,” she said. “It is the size of a dog but his head is like a monkey,” she told AFP.”
What she really meant was : “It is the size of a dog but his head is like a Jew”
LOL
No wonder there is panic
BTW.. the most popular name for pet honey badgers is 'Claude'.
How are your photoshop skills? I’d love to see the arms-raised burka woman in front of this!
Hehehe. Looks like the Iraqis are falling for it.
Q branch - release the rest of the badgers! Kill! Kill! My stripey pets! Bwhahahahahahah! :D
The Americans have their F22 but it is no match for our badgers with frickin’ laser beams!
I suppose next they’ll blame it on us Wisconsinites because we are in the badger state.
At the bottom of the ninth, it’s the Basara Badgers 10 and the al_Qaida Asswipes 0....
BBC Blames British Basra Badgers
...and who says bees are dying out?
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