Reuters reports Karim Thamir was fishing with his sons last week 160 miles from the coast when they saw a large fish thrashing in their net. Thamir said he recognized it as a shark, because he had seen them on TV. Shark Week to the rescue!
Dr. Mohamed Ajah, assistant dean of the college of science at Thi Qar University in Nassiriya, said barriers in river estuaries usually prevented sharks swimming upstream.
“In this case, I think this animal was there for a long time but no one had managed to see it,” he said.
Locals blamed the U.S. military for the shark’s presence.
Tahseen Ali, a teacher, said there was a “75 percent chance” Americans had put the shark in the water.
Now we’re wrangling sharks to ruin the fun of Iraqi children? Will there be no end to our evil?
