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MI6 Swaps Bomb Making Info With Cupcake Recipe On al-Qaeda Website

Posted by samzenpus on from the now-you're-cooking dept.

The British Intelligence agency has unveiled its latest weapon in the war on terror, cupcake recipes published by the Ellen DeGeneres show. MI6 hacked an online al-Queda magazine replacing instructions about how to “Make a bomb in the Kitchen of your Mom" with a web page of recipes for “The Best Cupcakes in America” from Ellen's show. From the article: "It included a recipe for the Mojito Cupcake – 'made of white rum cake and draped in vanilla buttercream'- and the Rocky Road Cupcake – 'warning: sugar rush ahead!' By contrast, the original magazine featured a recipe showing how to make a lethal pipe bomb using sugar, match heads and a miniature lightbulb, attached to a timer."

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  1. You might say... by Mabbo · · Score: 5, Funny

    *puts on sunglasses* ... those cupcakes were dynamite.

  2. Insensitivity to Muslims by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It seems to me that MI6 has shown considerable insensitivity to the Muslim readers of this magazine by including alcoholic cupcakes among the recipes.

  3. Misleading headline by ArhcAngel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did anyone else read the headline and think that MI6 had given Al Qaeda bomb plans in return for a cupcake recipe?

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  4. Re:Sense of humor by Dog-Cow · · Score: 3, Funny

    Humour.

  5. In A.D. 2011 by kat_skan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Al-Qaeda: What happen?
    Mechanic: Someone set us cup the cake.
    Operator: We get sprinkles.
    Al-Qaeda: What!
    Operator: Microwave turn on.
    Al-Qaeda: It's you!!
    MI6: How are you gentlemen!!
    MI6: All your bomb are belong to us.