i don't know if this is true or not

i sure do hope it's the NOT choice. if it IS true, why wasn't this story carried by more outlets?

In Iraq, frogs and rabbits will scatter

By C.W. GUSEWELLE The Kansas City Star

It was only a brief item in our paper — small enough to perhaps be easily overlooked — although it got more extensive play in the Eastern press.
The story concerned the transfer of responsibility for security in Najaf province of Iraq from coalition forces to U.S.-trained indigenous soldiers and police.
It is the hoped-for ability of Iraqis themselves to maintain order that is the cornerstone of the U.S. administration’s strategy for salvaging something resembling a victory from the wreckage of that broken country.
President Bush is expected to share his plan with Congress and the American people in a major address early in this coming week.
What Bush declares to be steady gains in the competence of Iraq’s own forces are sure to figure greatly in his “new” blueprint for avoiding full-scale civil war and extracting U.S. forces from a worsening nightmare.
If so, the events at the security-transfer ceremony were not terribly encouraging.
In a Najaf soccer stadium, troops from the Iraqi army, the police and other emergency units paraded for an hour before a reviewing stand filled with U.S. and Iraqi dignitaries.
Then, in what seems to have been the high point of the affair, the members of a commando unit gave a dramatic demonstration of their courage.
According to published accounts, each commando plucked a frog from his pocket, bit off its head and flung aside the twitching lower parts. Then their leader cut open a rabbit and passed it to the others to chew on its still-beating heart................

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