CIA puts hold on Iraqi Scavenger Hunt

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(JOFUS) -- The U.S. sponsored scavenger hunt in Iraq was postponed on Wednesday with still no clear cut winner.

CIA officials have received complaints from several participants regarding "unexpected" interference from local Iraqis. Often times this results in the loss of key hunt items.

Pvfc. Trigger Fiengers was one of several participants injured when searching for item #20 on his list in central Baghdad.

"I was just glancing in cars looking for a used RPG when BOOM," he recalls. Fiengers lost his left hand in the explosion when the car he attempted to enter turned out to be a car bomb.

It's owner A-vril Muhameat was angered that his vehicle exploded 5 miles outside of its final destination, the Green Zone. Fiengers apologized profusely, but Muhameat contacted local CIA Hunt organizers to complain.

In a related incident, Lt. Litle Chit was attacked after asking a local to take a picture of her with item #31, militia weapons cache.

Chit explains: "I asked the guy nicely. I even showed him how to use the camera! When I posed with my thumbs up in front of the weapons he just flipped."

Due to the rash of local intolerance, CIA officials have postponed the hunt until Iraq is granted sovereignty at the end of the month. The Pentagon is frustrated with the lack of progress since only 5 teams have found 29 of the 35 items.

Among the list of items unfound are #31 chemical weapons plant, #16 nuclear refinement facility, #27 Saddam look-a-like 43, #11 the ten of Spades, and #35 one WMD.