Badgers? We Don't Need No Stinking Badgers

From the Beebs:

UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: "We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area."

The area in question being Basra.

The director of Basra's veterinary hospital, Mushtaq Abdul-Mahdi, has inspected
several of the animals' corpses.

He told the AFP news agency: "These appeared before the fall of the regime in 1986. They are known locally as Al-Girta.

"Talk that this animal was brought by the British forces is incorrect and unscientific."

But we all know that you can't trust a scientific consensus. Right?