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Mossad training animals to spy

  • 09-01-2011 8:04pm
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    robtri
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    heard this today and thought is was very suited for here... actually thought BB would beat me to it,,,
    This just in: Saudi Arabia has arrested a bird on charges of spying for Israel. According to the newspaper Al Weeam, the alleged Mossad agent is a vulture that was captured in a rural area of the country. It was discovered to have a transmitter and a leg bracelet marked "Tel Aviv University."
    Some might be tempted to believe Israel's story, which is that the bird was part of a scientific study tracking the movements of vultures in the region. But not the Saudi press, or any number of Arab websites that were quick to jump on the story. The vulture, said al Weeam, was most likely part of "a Zionist plot."
    This is hardly the first time that Arab media -- or governments, for that matter -- have jumped to conclusions about the Mossad's technological prowess. Two other birds tagged by Tel Aviv university, a vulture and a pelican, were accused of being spies when they were captured in Sudan. And just last month the governor of Egypt's Sinai peninsula claimed that a shark that killed a tourist near the resort of Sharm al-Sheikh was a Mossad plant.
    A few years ago the Egyptian press was full of reports about an alleged Mossad plot to distribute chewing gum that would cause young women to become sexually promiscuous. Though it heavily censors its press, the government did nothing to discourage the story.
    The Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens pointed to the Mossad shark and other Arab conspiracy theories as an example of "the debasement of the Arab mind.". But there is a more benign explanation, as well: Israel's real technological prowess and its real covert operations. As Max Boot points out, Mossad's most recent suspected exploits are almost as fantastic as the fantasies. Israel is widely believed responsible for the Stuxnet computer worm, which appears to have done serious damage to Iran's centrifuges and its Busheir nuclear plant. And Mossad is the leading suspect in the high-tech bomb attacks on two leading Iranian nuclear scientists last month. One was killed and the other seriously injured when passing motorcyclists slapped adhesive bombs onto their cars.
    So Arab media and officials who rave about spying vultures and Mossad sharks deserve to be mocked. On the other hand, they can cite the paranoid's defense -- just because they believe the Mossad is staging wild covert operations against them doesn't mean it's not true.

    source http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/01/israels_spying_vulture--and_ki.html?hpid=opinionsbox1


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    Brown Bomber
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    robtri wrote: »
    heard this today and thought is was very suited for here... actually thought BB would beat me to it,,,



    source http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/01/israels_spying_vulture--and_ki.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

    You know when something sounds like mainstream media propoganda to make arabs look like paranoid fools it usually is.
    The device is now under investigation. There is no suggestion from the authorities that it is a spying device, or that there is any connection with Mossad. Those rumors developed from Internet chat rooms and were picked up by mainstream news carriers. An online newspaper carried the story saying that the bird was an eagle labeled X65; this story was strangely illustrated with a roost of vultures. The Jewish Chronicle Online in Friday’s edition reported it as R65. However, the Hail vulture was, according to our sources, labeled X63.

    The griffon vulture was removed to Thumama wildlife reserve outside Riyadh where, far from being arrested, it is being well cared for and, according to Dr. Mohammed Shobrak who has been in close contact with the vet tending the bird, will be released when it has recovered from the trauma of capture and multiple handling.

    Shobrak is a world expert on the lappet vulture and vultures in general, and has spent much of his life studying and tracking the birds. He is also the former director of the National Wildlife Research Center near Taif, working head of the Biology Department at Taif University and bird adviser to the Saudi Wildlife Commission.
    http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article230917.ece

    As for the sharks...

    Pentagon develops brain implants to turn sharks into military spies

    By Steve Connor, Science Editor http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pentagon-develops-brain-implants-to-turn-sharks-into-military-spies-468282.html





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