The Jawa Report:
I was going to make some snarky post about this:
Many residents of the southern city of Basra have convinced themselves that the British Army has loosed savage cattle-eating badgers onto its unsuspecting populace as a final gesture of ill intent before it departs the city later this summer.Throw in, for good measure, the fervent belief that British soldiers have planted snake eggs in waterways and unleashed bomb-sniffing dogs purposefully infected with rabies.
Then two words popped in to my head.
Art Bell.
Two words popped into my head, as well.
Monty Python.
Seriously, I fully understand the rumors are going to get started, with particularly when people are uninformed. But occurs to me that the rumors Jawa speaks of here, aren’t all that different from some of the stuff we’ve been hearing about that region of the world from our own left.
Frankly, that the comparison holes as well as it does, I consider more frightening than amusing.
Tags: BitsBlog, news of the weird
