This probably should go in Nuggets, but I thought it was too good to pass up - it seems that some mysterious, black and white creatures have shown up around the British airbase at Basra, terrorizing the local populace:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6295138.stm

Best line in the story, and I can just envision the delivery on this:

"UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: "We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area." "

When I first spotted this, I thought of two things: the controversy they've had across the pond with the badger cull and a supposed TB risk to livestock, and...

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/Big+Ass+Badgers/

Halo, has one of your crack-smoking Pentagon-paranoid equivalents over there come up with a way to kill two birds with one stone? ;)

Regards,
Nydia

badger badger badger ... mushroom mushrooom.... +rep to someone with a link

Snaaaaaaaaaake snaaaaaaaaaaaake oh its a snaaaaaaaaaaake (http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/)

Please! The best you have is man eating badgers? We have the gay bomb!

Gay man eating badgers...our new overlords.

And Eastern was afraid of WOMD??

Muahahah, fear Europe, fear USA, fear World the undead Saddam Hussein's gay man eating bagders army!!