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Iraq accuses Israel of dropping crocodile eggs in Iraqi lakes

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Deadly pens and exploding cigars? Amateur spy toys.

Israeli spies - according to a popular Iraqi newspaper - have put crocodile eggs into two lakes in northern Iraq.That ploy follows the release of "large quantities" of cobra snakes near Iraqi forces in the north, said Babil, a daily newspaper owned by Odai Hussein, President Saddam Hussein's oldest son.

Northern Iraq is under the control of Kurdish factions helped by a no-fly zone enforced by U.S. and allied warplanes.

The newspaper did not elaborate on the goal of the operation.