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British Did Not Release Man-Eating Badgers in Iraq

zooillogix | July 12, 2007

The BBC is reporting that the British military is being blamed for a plague of ferocious badgers in and around the city of Basra. Apparently word has spread quickly among local residents that "man-eating, bear-like beasts" were released in order to sow panic. A vicious honey badger hungry for jihadi blood, Mellivora capensis Although several of the creatures caught and killed by farmers have been identified as honey badgers, an indigenous local species, that has not stopped widespread speculation that the British military was involved. According to UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer, "…