YEAH, I had my share of encounters with these things "Wind Scorpians" or Camel Spiders while in the AOR for 6 months.
They are pretty wild, they really wont mess with you until you surprise one then it's game on. Believe me when I say these things are very Fast... I mean especially in sand. You really have to work to out run them. And they are territorial and like I said VERY aggressive if spooked. Had one in my shop one night, I thought I saw a Gerbil run behind a couple of boxes, I thought damn gotta get him out of here before the snakes show up... Sh!t, move them boxes and one of these things pivots and comes right at me... I back peddled like a keystone cop...
The only saving grace with these things is that they seemed to be particulary vulnerable to RAID. Spray just a little on them and they would die almost instantly. But I am allready wary of spiders and these bastards would mess with your head.
By all accounts they really are pretty non-venomous. However they have 4 yes 4 fangs, that open up and down and left to right. Each fang is about 5/8 inches (In a full Grown) and their bite generally sends the person to be treated for Shock.
Even worse though, were the smaller golf ball sized black ones. They had red mouth parts, were just all sort of anti-social and were much more likely to be found indoors. They were seriously aggressive. If youput your boot down neer one it would charge up to it and you could hear it bitting and chewing on your boot... Burly lil bastards....
And of course, you had scorpians, snakes, wild dogs, big assed ugly lizards (Saudi's Eat them), and any number of unidentified crawling/flying/hoping wierd sh!t... made things interesting... Then of course the occasional fence cutting bad guy with an AK...