Giant Spiders?

This might be another shark and helicopter story, but there's a story about giant spiders in Iraq.
http://www.abc.net.au/sydney/stories/s1090143.htm

Wow. Just..wow.

Everything I was going to write about just got completely knocked out of my head, so I may post again later. I really sort of hope they're not real for the soldier's sakes, but I hope they are real because..wow..how cool is that?