Originally Posted by GreyWolf

BTW crockett - the above doc - Dr. Mohamed Ajah did not make any claims about "Americans" - he said:

"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."

It was a fisherman, Hatim Karim, who made claims in the story. Sounds no different to any fisherman - they all exaggerate