And now for something completely different!!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

Saudi Prince Clears Israeli Vulture Of Spying Allegations
Jillian Rayfield | January 11, 2011, 1:37PM
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A Saudi Arabian prince has announced that a tagged Israeli vulture captured last week and accused of being a Mossad agent will be released, according to ABC News.

The bird was reportedly captured last week by Saudi officials and accused by local media of being part of a "Zionist plot" after it was discovered wearing a GPS tracker labeled Tel Aviv University.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/saudi_prince_clears_israeli_vulture_of_spying_alle.php

Thank goodness... the bird is not guilty of spying!

This is one of those funny stories that no, I could not write in a novel and have it believed!

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Sounds like something that should have been from The Onion....

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Nah this international spat, with a bird in the middle,

has been going on for two weeks.

TPM, thank goodness, has been following this one.

[formercia]

2. God forbid we should think

that they're just a bunch of superstitious Goat herders.

[MattBaggins]

4. That's a rather bigoted thing to say about Israelis

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Actually the bird and the GPS tracker

being a Zionist device makes all the sense in the world, if you understand the PROPAGANDA at play here.

In a way it is not different from what we are treated here from RW radio. No, not thematically, but in intensity. It is a good mirror actually.

[formercia]

6. Actually, I know something about the story

I was at the manufacturer that makes the tracking transmitters and the CEO told me to be careful because there were two Israelis in the next room. According to him, they are intent on restoring all of the animals that were mentioned in the Bible to the Sinai. Apparently, they believe that the messiah will not come until it is done.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Well everybody has radicals

[denem]

8. But the bird was wearing his Vulture uniform,

and therefore is not a spy under the Geneva Conventions

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. RLOL that is a good one

[pinboy3niner]

10. They duck-walked him...

...took him to the pen, then gave him the bird degree. And still he wouldn't squawk!

No matter what they did to him, he wasn't talon.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Given I got a couple protesting conures right now

They did not get meat for lunch, meatless day... that is funny.

Thanks for the laugh.

[upi402]

12. But what fate the pigeon?

To GITMO, or back to space with its report?