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Visiting Basra? Beware the Man Eating Badgers.

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  • 12-07-2007 5:47pm
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    aidan_walsh
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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6295138.stm
    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 director of Basra's veterinary hospital, Mushtaq Abdul-Mahdi, has inspected several of the animals' corpses.

    He said: "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.

    Locals say they have the head of a monkey and eat cows. Wikipedia says it likes to go for the scrote when attacking large mammels.

    And, in possibly the best press conference in the world ever:
    UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: "We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.

    We believe you Mike. We believe you.


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