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Giant Badgers terrorise iraq (we don't need no stinkin Badgers)
Daily Telegraph ^
| July 11 2007
Posted on 7/11/2007, 3:50:39 PM by jbwbubba
THE Iraqi port city of Basra, already prey to a nasty turf war between rival militia factions, has now been gripped by a scary rumour – giant badgers are stalking the streets by night, eating humans.
The animals were allegedly released into the area by British forces.
Local farmers have caught and killed several of the beasts, but this has done nothing to dispel the rumour.
Iraqi scientists have attempted to calm things down. However, the story has spread like wildfire in the streets of the city and the villages round about.
Mushtaq Abdul-Mahdi, director of Basra's veterinary hospital, has inspected the corpses of several badgers and tries to reassure Iraqis that the animals are not a new post-war arrival in the region.
“These animals appeared before the fall of the regime in 1986. They are known as Al-Ghirayri and locally as Al-Girta,” he told AFP. “Talk that this animal was brought by the British forces is incorrect and unscientific.”
Not everybody is convinced.
“I believe this animal appeared following a raid to the region by the British forces,” said Ali Mohsen, a farmer in his 40s from Karmat Ali, near the air base used by the multinational force.
“As we are close to the airport, they probably released this animal into the area.”
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: badgers
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Well, at least its not giant Beavers
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posted on
7/11/2007, 3:50:42 PM
by
jbwbubba
To: jbwbubba
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posted on
7/11/2007, 3:51:29 PM
by
cripplecreek
(Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
7/11/2007, 3:51:53 PM
by
null and void
(...and there'd be world peace and fuzzy puppies for everyone. And then we could eat them...)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
7/11/2007, 3:53:00 PM
by
null and void
(...and there'd be world peace and fuzzy puppies for everyone. And then we could eat them...)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
7/11/2007, 3:54:33 PM
by
Mrs.Nooseman
(Proudly supporting our Troops and Allies!!!!)
To: jbwbubba
maybe we could get a few hundred thousand giant chupacabra’s released along our southern border?
To: cripplecreek
Yeah, just wait till they see the snakes and mushrooms
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posted on
7/11/2007, 3:55:36 PM
by
joebuck
To: cripplecreek
http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/badger.swf *chuckle*
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posted on
7/11/2007, 3:55:40 PM
by
TChris
(The Republican Party is merely the Democrat Party's "away" jersey - Vox Day)
To: null and void
Cousins doing their duty in Iraq.,..........
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posted on
7/11/2007, 3:56:27 PM
by
Red Badger
(No wonder Mexico is so filthy. Everybody who does cleaning jobs is HERE!.......)
To: null and void
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posted on
7/11/2007, 3:57:05 PM
by
chesty_puller
(70-73 USMC VietNam 75-79 US Army Wash DC....VietNam was safer.)
To: cripplecreek
Lol. I was wondering how long it would take before that was posted
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posted on
7/11/2007, 3:57:08 PM
by
nuconvert
([there are bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
To: jbwbubba
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posted on
7/11/2007, 3:57:38 PM
by
Jaxter
("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
To: jbwbubba
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posted on
7/11/2007, 3:57:39 PM
by
marvlus
To: jbwbubba
I suppose we could rumor them that they are
wild boars disguised a badgers.
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posted on
7/11/2007, 3:58:30 PM
by
stylin19a
(Since bad golf shots come in groups of 3, a 4th bad shot is the start of the next group of 3)
To: jbwbubba
To: joebuck
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posted on
7/11/2007, 3:59:05 PM
by
null and void
(...and there'd be world peace and fuzzy puppies for everyone. And then we could eat them...)
To: Vn_survivor_67-68
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA.....thats the best idea for border security of all.
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posted on
7/11/2007, 3:59:36 PM
by
skimask
("Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated"....George Bernard Shaw)
To: chesty_puller
A post one and a half minutes late...
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posted on
7/11/2007, 4:00:11 PM
by
null and void
(...and there'd be world peace and fuzzy puppies for everyone. And then we could eat them...)
To: jbwbubba
Well, at least its not giant Beavers
Or giant Buckeyes.
To: jbwbubba
‘Giant Badgers’? The regular size ones are bad enough. Like Wolverines they seem to be born pissed off.
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