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To: Leatherneck_MT
There was a thread about "giant spiders" in Irag about a year ago. They are really a species of scorpion but are called "camel spiders." They are huge and ugly but not poisonous. Our guys just had to make sure every morning that these things were not napping in their boots.


42 posted on 08/27/2004 7:23:10 AM PDT by Alouette (My son, the Learned Youngster of Zion)
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49 posted on 08/27/2004 7:33:26 AM PDT by SC DOC
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My Son-in-law sent home a picture with one of those suckers resting on the top of his hand. The family's universal reaction was "What, are you NUTS???"...


56 posted on 08/27/2004 8:47:43 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Kerry Lied. Soldiers Died.)
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