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A Badger - shi'ite
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7-19-2007 3:51 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ce410ba3-92e3-4f26-a8fe-ef3303d1e5c3/C02D6AD3-9C4F-434F-9295-A0EF372DF993/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6295138.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6295138.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6295138.stm"><TR><TD colspan="3"><DIV class="mxb"><DIV class="sh"> British blamed for Basra badgers </DIV> </DIV> </TD></TR><TR><TD width="416" valign="top"><FONT size="2"> <TABLE width="203" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD><DIV> <IMG width="203" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="152" border="0" alt="Badger picture courtesy of Matt White" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/43995000/jpg/_43995400_bagde.jpg" /> <DIV class="cap">The badgers appeared near the British base in Basra</DIV> </DIV> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><B>British forces have denied rumours that they released a plague of ferocious badgers into the Iraqi city of Basra.</B> </FONT><P> <FONT size="2">Word spread among the populace that UK troops had introduced strange man-eating, bear-like beasts into the area to sow panic. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">But several of the creatures, caught and killed by local farmers, have been identified by experts as honey badgers. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">The rumours spread because the animals had appeared near the British base at Basra airport. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: "We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.</FONT></P></TD></TR></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C02D6AD3-9C4F-434F-9295-A0EF372DF993/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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