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Shark Caught 160 Miles From Sea (Baghdad)
REUTERS/Stringer/iraq ^
| REUTERS/Stringer/iraq
Posted on 10/30/2007 7:57:15 AM PDT by FreeManWhoCan
The remains of a shark lies on a truck as it is transported to the college of science at Thi Qar University in Nassiriya south of Baghdad, October 24, 2007. The two-meter shark was caught in a river in southern Iraq more than 160 miles from the sea. Karim Hasan Thamir said he was fishing with his sons last week when they spotted a large fish thrashing about in his net. "I recognized the fish as a shark because I have seen one on a television programme," he told Reuters.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cryptozoology; shark
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Very odd.
To: Lakeshark
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posted on
10/30/2007 7:58:12 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Franz Kafka would have killed himself in despair if he lived in the world we inhabit today.)
To: pcottraux; SunkenCiv; Angelas; presidio9; Idisarthur; Hegemony Cricket; A knight without armor; ...
I thought you guys would get a kick out of this story.
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posted on
10/30/2007 7:58:13 AM PDT
by
FreeManWhoCan
(An American in Miami)
To: FreeManWhoCan
I thought this was a story about a lawyer in Iraq
To: FreeManWhoCan
"Very odd." Not really. I remember reading a story about someone catching a shark in the Mississippi River---at St. Louis!! One heck of a long way from the Gulf of Mexico, that.
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posted on
10/30/2007 8:02:01 AM PDT
by
Wonder Warthog
(The Hog of Steel-NRA)
To: FreeManWhoCan
To: FreeManWhoCan
Curse that evil Bush. This is just more evidence that the situation in Iraq is unwinnable...We must get the troops out NOW, before MORE sharks swim inland!!!
/moonbat
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posted on
10/30/2007 8:03:10 AM PDT
by
opus86
To: opus86
SAND SHARK!!!
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posted on
10/30/2007 8:04:43 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Franz Kafka would have killed himself in despair if he lived in the world we inhabit today.)
To: FreeManWhoCan
nasty man eatin’ bull sharks have a tendency to head up river to where the good eats are.
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posted on
10/30/2007 8:04:55 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
To: FreeManWhoCan
rymb!
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posted on
10/30/2007 8:05:16 AM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: FreeManWhoCan
Maybe it chased the scent of continual blood in the river water emptying into the gulf, and followed it upriver to the sources....and developed a habit of scavenging bodies dumped into the river. I wonder how many people have disappeared in the area where it was caught.
To: null and void; All
MWSS 371 [in Yuma, AZ called the “Sand Sharke”] are home right now, so there should be no sand sharks in Iraq....
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posted on
10/30/2007 8:06:41 AM PDT
by
TMSuchman
(American by birth, Rebel by choice, Marine by act of GOD!)
To: Wonder Warthog
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posted on
10/30/2007 8:06:56 AM PDT
by
Ditto
(Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
To: FreeManWhoCan
You’ll know capitalism if alive and well in Iraq if they sell the sharkmeat as “scallops”.
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posted on
10/30/2007 8:26:06 AM PDT
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
To: FreeManWhoCan
Not uncommon. I’d bet it’s a bull shark.
To: Ditto
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posted on
10/30/2007 8:28:31 AM PDT
by
wizr
(I ain't perfect, but Jesus loves me anyway.)
To: FreeManWhoCan
“Still no frickin' laser beams! Is that too much to ask??”
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posted on
10/30/2007 8:29:17 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
To: FreeManWhoCan
Bull shark. 1937, Alton, Illinois. Mississippi River.
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posted on
10/30/2007 8:48:48 AM PDT
by
BGHater
(Bread and Circuses)
To: FreeManWhoCan
Maybe it got out of one of Saddam’s shark tanks, where he dipped Kurds and dissidents.
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posted on
10/30/2007 9:14:51 AM PDT
by
Defiant
("Expectorate" has Specter in it.)
To: FreeManWhoCan
There are Fresh Water Sharks in Nicaragua.
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posted on
10/30/2007 9:19:33 AM PDT
by
trumandogz
(Hunter Thompson 2008)
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