A few weeks back I carelessly suggested the US might consider loosing 1,000-pound Alabama hogs in the “insurgent” neighborhoods of Baghdad. Several readers objected that this was culturally inappropriate. I’m glad to see that in Basra the wily British have come up with a far more politically sensitive strategy:

Giant badgers terrorise Iraqi port city …Local farmers have caught and killed several of the beasts, but this has done nothing to dispel rumours of a bear-like monster that eats humans and was allegedly released into the area by British forces to spread panic.

Game, sett and match to the British.

I gather the French are experimenting with giant stuffed geese that explode on contact covering the natives in radioactive foie gras.