# \*News Flash\* Sheik Al-Sumide'I reveals the secret weapon of the insurgents

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 25, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-sheik-al-sumidei-reveals-the-secret-weapon-of-the-insurgents/261510 "2004-08-25T23:01:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-sheik-al-sumidei-reveals-the-secret-weapon-of-the-insurgents/261510/1 "2004-08-25T23:01:24Z")

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Sweet mother of Jesus! The insurgents have a new weapon. Great big black spiders with thin hair that on contact causes the body to turn black and blue and all the blood cells to explode – yeah and death too. That’ll teach the infidel Americans to spread corruption! And to throw dirt on their faces too!

What does the Geneva conventions have to say about great black spiders and the use of miracles?

[http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=219](http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=219)

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**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-sheik-al-sumidei-reveals-the-secret-weapon-of-the-insurgents/261510/2 "2004-08-25T23:40:16Z")

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Wow. That looks like something Baghdad Bob (former Iraqi Minister of Information – much loved for his “humour”) would write.

That real?

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**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-sheik-al-sumidei-reveals-the-secret-weapon-of-the-insurgents/261510/3 "2004-08-25T23:41:29Z")

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Oh, dear Og, there’s a video clip. Forget my last question.

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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-sheik-al-sumidei-reveals-the-secret-weapon-of-the-insurgents/261510/4 "2004-08-25T23:44:23Z")

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Well, his story certainly sounds different from what our own media are telling _us_. But there’s just enough Ray Bradbury floating around in my head to entertain the possibility that our media may not be exactly forthcoming.

I’m not sure about spiders the size of chairs, however. That sound a little like BS. ;j

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**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-sheik-al-sumidei-reveals-the-secret-weapon-of-the-insurgents/261510/5 "2004-08-26T00:05:42Z")

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> [@Inigo Montoya](#):
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> I’m not sure about spiders the size of chairs, however. That sound a little like BS. ;j

;j \<==== EEEEK! Spider! Spider! Spider on your head!

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**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-sheik-al-sumidei-reveals-the-secret-weapon-of-the-insurgents/261510/6 "2004-08-26T00:29:16Z")

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> [@Eats\_Crayons](#):
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> ;j \<==== EEEEK! Spider! Spider! Spider on your head!

I think this calls for a reprinting of that classic horror novel of the last decade, “There’s a Spider On Your Back!”

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**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-sheik-al-sumidei-reveals-the-secret-weapon-of-the-insurgents/261510/7 "2004-08-26T03:37:54Z")

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_swat! swat! swat!_

Where was I?

Ah yes, the camel spider photos strike again!

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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-sheik-al-sumidei-reveals-the-secret-weapon-of-the-insurgents/261510/8 "2004-08-26T05:52:37Z")

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This is obviously just a covert power-play by the Great Queen Spider.

Jeez…what _are_ those guys smoking?

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-flash-sheik-al-sumidei-reveals-the-secret-weapon-of-the-insurgents/261510/9 "2004-08-26T12:38:03Z")

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Hunter S. Thompson has a cousin in Iraq?  
Who knew?