Friday, May 13, 2005

Giant Spider

I found this picture in an Arabic site, for a giant spiders in the Iraqi desert.
I really don't know is it real..? or not.
I have heared a rumer about giant spiders attacking American soldier, but I thought it was just a propaganda. If this picture is real, that means the rumer was correct.

13 comments:

hbl said...

A spider?  It looks like it is big enough to take down small dogs.

Bill said...

Giant Camel Spiders in Iraq!!!

The photo below reportedly comes from a soldier, stationed in Baghdad, who was bitten by a camel spider that was hiding in his sleeping bag. Fortunately, these critters aren't venomous... but they're BIG and FAST (they can run around 10MPH).

The photo shows two spiders attached together, and the camera angle makes them look a tad larger than they really are (they're about the size of an adult's hand). They also tend to seek out shade during the daytime, so it's not terribly unusual to see them charging across the desert at you -- only to come to a screeching halt when they reach your shadow.

http://www.gophergas.com/funstuff/camelspider.htm

waldschrat said...

There was also a story about "desert truffles", delicious underground mushrooms like the famous gourmet truffles of France only better, that grow in the deserts of Iraq and are available in markets there at ridiculously low prices.

Truth teller said...

waldschrat

This "desert truffles" are common near Mosul and it is called "Kamah" in arabic and some pronounce it "chimah".
Several types are usually available (black or white). It is very delicious.

waldschrat said...

What fun, the joke is on me! I had assumed that the story about "desert truffles" was a fabrication created to taunt the French!

Anonymous said...

What is a joke is that even an educated Arab man can go to these Islamic sites and believe that the 'giant spiders of Allah' could even be remotely true, along with the other outlandish propaganda. What is it about Islam that keeps these people so incredibly backward and ready to believe anything? And America has to apologize and defer to their sensibilities when they take offense to every claim, imagined or otherwise? Somebody needs to take the Arab culture aside and tell them to grow up or go away.

Anonymous said...

More info on the photo and the spiders can be found here..

Anonymous said...

"Karamat" Allah's Blessings And Signs For His Aid To Mujahideen Much has been written in Arabic about "Karamat" (Allah's blessings and signs for his aid to Mujahideen) in Fallujah, Ramadi, Al-Qaim and other Iraqi battlefields including mirages that blind the eyes of the aggressors, sand storms that disable their vehicles, sharp rises in temperature that hinder their offensives and other like incidents. One of the more interesting is the "the giant Iraqi spider" that bit American soldiers during the Battle of Fallujah. It is said that this kind of spiders were unknown in Iraq before. The giant spider does not just bite its victim but deposits a deadly poison in the wound that progressively eats human flesh over a period of time. The Giant Iraqi Spider

liminal said...

mmmmm....chimah

Sulayman said...

Snopes debunks the camel spider rumor. The photo is real, but has an inaccurate description.

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