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2004-08-26 Iraq-Jordan
The Divine Spiders Of Allah, and other s**t you just CAN'T make up...
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Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-08-26 1:17:44 AM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 This is the kind of stuff the US should be rebroadcasting over here. Let everybody see what sort of lunatics we are really dealing with.
Posted by Laurence of the Rats  2004-08-26 8:53:02 AM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/]  2004-08-26 8:53:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Did Psyops drop a shedload of hallucinogens on Fallujah for reasons of disorientating the enemy?
Posted by Howard UK 2004-08-26 8:55:54 AM||   2004-08-26 8:55:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Exactly LoR. And broadcast on primetime the spittle flung in the Mosque sermons, the rantings of their religous and political leaders, the blood libel printed in their newspapers and broadcast on their televisions, and the hatred regurgitated by a populace fed a diet of victim propaganda and nurtured on the tit of religious conquest.
The press and government have shielded us from these barbarians much to long. Let us get to know them ... then kill them.
Posted by ed 2004-08-26 9:06:29 AM||   2004-08-26 9:06:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't think it is Allah who is helping them. I think it is Spider-Man. J. Jonah Jamison was right all along...


"Today, if a hundred Americans are killed, they say there was one casualty, and if dozens of tanks were blown up, they say one was blown up. No one will notice the losses caused to the American forces until they return to their bases — if they return, and in my opinion they will not return — but if they return, the world will see and the American people will see the number of losses."

Another classic case of projection.

Posted by Ol_Dirty_American 2004-08-26 9:08:36 AM||   2004-08-26 9:08:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I wouldn't be eating the brown acid there, sheiky...
Posted by tu3031 2004-08-26 9:10:28 AM||   2004-08-26 9:10:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The Americans place the casualties inside white or black bags, seal them and toss them from a plane into the lake.

um..you think they'd be smart enough to ask why the lake doesn't have hundreds (or is it thousands) of bodies floating on top. Unless of course, the giant monsters that live in the lake dine on them.

Posted by B 2004-08-26 9:15:08 AM||   2004-08-26 9:15:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Interesting that this story came up about spiders. Here's a linky I got yesterday showing pics (supposedly our guys handling them) of 2 camelspiders in Iraq. After a snopes.com search though, we found that most spider experts agree that the biggest they've seen or would get would be around 5 inches. Could be the angle of the camera or a Photo shop job. Here's link:

Posted by BA  2004-08-26 9:21:48 AM||   2004-08-26 9:21:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Link button didn't work, here's the URL:

http://www.buckstix.com/camelspider.htm
Posted by BA  2004-08-26 9:22:35 AM||   2004-08-26 9:22:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 the iraqi desert does have a real big brown/tan looking spider aptly named the 'camel spider'. They have a painful bite that causes some numbness but is definitely not fatal.
Posted by Jarhead 2004-08-26 9:24:36 AM||   2004-08-26 9:24:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 J: Are they really that big, or are those pics at buckstix.com a photo shop job/angle of camera? I'm really interested in the timing of all this, as I just got that link yesterday and now an imam is using as "proof" that Allan is on their side against our troops! Coincidence? I think not.
Posted by BA  2004-08-26 9:30:10 AM||   2004-08-26 9:30:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 ...The biggest camel spider I saw over there was roughly 8" from the tip of the front legs to the tips of the rear legs. Not terribly dangerous unless you're allergic to insect bites, but they have a remarkably rotten disposition.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-08-26 9:32:37 AM||   2004-08-26 9:32:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Look at how large the sleeve collar and palm is in relation to the spider.
Posted by ed 2004-08-26 9:36:47 AM||   2004-08-26 9:36:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 It is possible that the media does not know about them.
No shit. LOL
Posted by Spot  2004-08-26 9:40:08 AM||   2004-08-26 9:40:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 I gotta admit...I saw "the" e-mail a while back, and I fell for it. I was all ready to tell you that the camel spiders are four feet long and can run up to 15 mph...(or was it 50mph??). DOh!

link
Posted by B 2004-08-26 9:42:05 AM||   2004-08-26 9:42:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 The Snopes foto shows two camel spiders (count the legs), making "it" seem twice as big as it is.

BTW, I've already put this one into the Classix.
Posted by Fred  2004-08-26 9:45:11 AM||   2004-08-26 9:45:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 well the title says the spiders are going to go to Najaf but the content says the spiders were in Falluja

lets all try to do a better job in describing non existant creature
Posted by mhw 2004-08-26 9:45:42 AM||   2004-08-26 9:45:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 
Allan sends the big, bad spiders to Iraq to cause suffering for the Iraqis. Allan sends only tiny, nice spiders to the USA.
.
Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-08-26 10:29:58 AM||   2004-08-26 10:29:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 Obviously spiders from Mars - why does David Bowie hate America?
Posted by VAMark 2004-08-26 10:31:19 AM||   2004-08-26 10:31:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#19 In the immortal words of Bilbo Baggins:

Old fat spider spinning in a tree
Old fat spider can't see me
Attercop! Attercop!
Won't you stop?
Stop your spinning and look for me!

Old Tomnoddy, all big body
Old Tomnoddy can't spy me.
Attercop! Attercop!
Down you drop!
You'll never catch me up in your tree!
Posted by Steve from Relto 2004-08-26 10:43:36 AM||   2004-08-26 10:43:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#20 The Shiek's stories have more inconsistancies than John Kerry's journals. For example:...This spider also had thin black hair. If this hair touches the human body, within a short period of time the body becomes black or blue, and then there is an explosion in the blood cells in the human body - and the person dies. Further he claims, ....I too, in one of the Friday sermons, held up a spider, with all its magnitude, in front of the satellite channels and in front of the world. And the Sheik lives on -- a miracle no doubt.
Posted by GK 2004-08-26 10:58:50 AM||   2004-08-26 10:58:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#21 the only human the spiders like is Hagrid.
Posted by Potterfan 2004-08-26 11:07:31 AM||   2004-08-26 11:07:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#22 except hes half giant, of course
Posted by potterfan 2004-08-26 11:08:03 AM||   2004-08-26 11:08:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#23 Yet another miracle from Allah.



The page says this tree looks like someone bowing for prayer, and claim the tree is facing Mecca.

I say the tree looks like something else. Like, maybe, two guys gettin' it on.
Posted by growler 2004-08-26 11:27:04 AM||   2004-08-26 11:27:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#24 So this is where Baghdad Bob has been hiding.
Posted by Redeye 2004-08-26 11:39:13 AM||   2004-08-26 11:39:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#25 The itsy-bitsy spider got hit by Sarin Gas,
Mutated large and became pain in the ass,
It took the entire army to spray insecticide,
Nobody mourned when the nasty spider died!
Posted by Oge_Retla_2004 2004-08-26 11:44:45 AM||   2004-08-26 11:44:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#26 Sorry... gotta say it....

Giant Monster Spiders... why do they hate us?
Posted by CrazyFool  2004-08-26 11:50:30 AM||   2004-08-26 11:50:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#27 Sheiky really needs to get an education. THIS American mom wouldn't bow in the streets crying and wailing, I'd get a large can of Raid, a flame thrower and go spider stompin'. These fools really don't understand American women very well. I'd hurt someone or something who hurt my child.
Guess I can't expect much sense from undereducated blowhards who wouldn't know the truth if it bit them.
Posted by AmericanMom 2004-08-26 1:05:34 PM||   2004-08-26 1:05:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 Baghdad Bob gets religion? This guy is nearly as bad as some of our own TV evangelists.
Posted by Mercutio 2004-08-26 1:54:59 PM||   2004-08-26 1:54:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 I got your sign from Allah right here!

Besides, those little bugs are mighty tasty grilled.
Posted by Capt America  2004-08-26 3:21:59 PM|| [http://captamerica.blogspot.com/]  2004-08-26 3:21:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 I remember seeing that photo last winter.
Posted by Mikey  2004-08-26 3:34:52 PM||   2004-08-26 3:34:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#31 Leica f/128
focus set to infinity + 19
Posted by Shipman 2004-08-26 5:52:08 PM||   2004-08-26 5:52:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#32 It's like the photo of me pinching the top of the John Hancock building... (Ed nailed it... look at the sleeve.)
Posted by eLarson 2004-08-26 5:59:45 PM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2004-08-26 5:59:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#33  Sheik Al-Sumide'i needs to stay away from the Berkley Barrel or blotter acid.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-08-26 6:46:46 PM||   2004-08-26 6:46:46 PM|| Front Page Top

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