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Egyptian Authorities Detain French "Spy" Bird Found With Tracker
An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post reports, 'In a case that ruffled feathers in Egypt, authorities have detained a migratory bird that a citizen suspected of being a spy. A man in Egypt's Qena governorate, some 450 kilometers (280 miles) southeast of Cairo, found the suspicious bird among four others near his home and brought them to a police station Friday, said Mohammed Kamal, the head of the security in the region. With turmoil gripping Egypt following the July 3 popularly backed military coup that overthrew the country's president, authorities and citizens remain highly suspicious of anything foreign. Conspiracy theories easily find their ways into cafe discussion — as well as some media in the country. Earlier this year, a security guard filed a police report after capturing a pigeon he said carried microfilm. A previous rumor in 2010 blamed a series of shark attacks along Egypt's Mediterranean coast on an Israeli plot. It wasn't. In the bird's case, even military officials ultimately had to deny the bird carried any spying devices. They spoke Saturday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to journalists.'"
Two words: Hartlepool, monkey.
Mind, that was 200 years ago when people had an excuse for being thick.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Walk like an Egyptian when in Egypt !!
When a bird flies like a stork and quacks like a stork and walks like a stork, then it's a fucking swan.
And a spying one, at that.
In Soviet Russia, our new overlords are belong to all your base.
(french) "pigeon with a radio" is going to be the new (israeli) "shark with a laser".
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
I think this is indicative of the intelligence of the people that supported the overthrow of Mursi.
FTFA
the state-run daily newspaper Al-Ahram quoted Kamal as saying the incident showed the patriotism of the man who captured the bird in the first place.
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We elected a terrorist for president, we revolted against him and the military backed us up, we have a civil government (so far).
Ladies and gentleman, I propose that this is only the beginning. Soon the evil Zionists and western imperialists will send their GM mind controlling bacteria to spy on us from inside our bodies.
Let's fight the oppression of foreign powers, the military, bad people and bacteria together. Unlike some cowardly dictators I lead by example.In the interest of public safety, as I have personally not felt a lot like myself lately, I asked officials to prove that I do not carry such bacteria. As they have failed to give any substantial evidence to the contrary I must conclude that however remote, there is a possibility this is the case.
If you do not feel like yourself and are tempted to take a power drill to your temple PLEASE STOP this is exactly what they want. Don't let them win!
Flying pigeons, swimming sharks and bacteria will not end us! Fight on my brothers and expose their wicked ways!
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
How the mighty have fallen.
Was it an African bird or a European one?
Who knew Dick Dasterdley was Egyptian?
IDIOTS.
No wonder they are having problems.
Now they can say:
"See, everybody does it. Our spying is different. We do it for the children and world peace"
When you hear about the Western spying programs (US, UK, France, etc) all over the news, when a country is undergoing huge changes, and when said western powers have been meddling in the region for decades, it's not completly unexpected for this sort of thing to happen.
I just feel bad for the poor stork that is still locked up.
"With turmoil gripping Egypt following the July 3 popularly backed military coup that overthrew the country's president" This statement is awkward writing, at best, a complete fabrication, at worst.
I suppose this is true if you define "popularly" as meaning "as done by more than one member of the populace-at-large". This is a pretty-narrow reading, as it makes an almost-meaningless statement.
I read it as if this statement is implying most people agree with the coup, and are happy it is occurring. I doubt this is true. I expect most people in Egypt want to just get on with their daily lives, and don't much care who's in charge, as daily life isn't disrupted.
I'm sure SOME members of the population agree with the coup, and there's another large pile (namely the large numbers of people that elected Morsi) that don't. Morsi may not have been a very good leader, but he was elected in what pretty much all agree were free and well-run elections. His overthrow makes a mockery of representative democracy.
It shames me that the US has not pulled the plug on military aid. If the elected president were secularist and the military decided to replace him with Morsi, I guarantee we would not have hesitated to denounce the coup and started actively agitating to have the democratic government restored.
Roswell, anyone?
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
I suspect those inept Egyptian security officials failed to follow proper protocol with this bird: he should have been separated from his for local friends, and each should have been interrogated to see if they had a straight story about their business together. Just because the foreign bird didn't crack doesn't mean his local affiliates won't!
That bird is a spy. It works for the NSA to capture traffic over IPoAC
"A previous rumor in 2010 blamed a series of shark attacks along Egypt's Mediterranean coast on an Israeli plot. It wasn't."
[Citation needed]
Ina democracy you do not overthrow legally elected people you don't like. You vote against them at the next election. That is something apparently a LOT of people do not understand when they applaud the coup against Morsi. Democracy isn't election of "the people we like only".
They could tell the bird was french because it surrendered without a fight.
Doesn't work that way.
My wife, a mathematician, chose me, and yet we still managed to bring a daughter into this world who's just months from getting her PhD in Math.
And I'm as stupid as they come. But I'm clean and a very good dancer.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Goddamn it, I've been looking for that packet all day ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
Why is this crap getting posted when I linked a story about a massive censorship law being debated next week in the UK and it gets buried. Many of the 'campaigns' are by ordinary citizens, it is us who would lose our voice in the 12 month lead-up to any election.
new government plans to gag charities and campaigners
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I have lived in Brussels, an arab infested city where they will soon be the majority. Not only most of the arabs i talked with were immensely stupid but the were PROUD to be stupid. For them, being a simpleton is a proof of devotion to tradition. And tradition is a good thing. Period. The will not evolve by themselves with this mentality.
The arab world is lagging behind civilisation. I guess for a very long time.
thank you
partisans in America are too dumb to see this...critics in America look at Egypt and wonder, "How can we make this Obama's fault"
Egyptians, Syrians, Libyans, etc **all** know exactly what they are fighting FOR and who they are fighting AGAINST
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American's are being duped by a media too dumb to know when the military/illuminati complex is leading them around by the nose...
Egypt and Syria now are just like Iran in 1979...
Democratic uprising to topple an Aristocrat dictator who was installed by foreign Oligarch's to mine the countries resources....oligarch's find a way to pit one part of the democratic revolution against the other (liberals vs conservatives) and the status quo is maintained.
They're running the *same playbook* in Syria and the American media is too dumb to see it
Thank you Dave Raggett
I hate these articles...the headlines are insulting and are subtly racist IMHO...
Headline should read: "Haha look at these Egyptian rubes! These camel jockeys don't understand technology and that is humorous."
But it is absolutely within the realm of possibility for someone to use a live bird for surveillance, especially when you look at what the Israelis are developing right in the open.
The technical ability and implicit demand are there for a live bird/spy drone.
I think anyone who laughs at these Egyptians is the true idiot.
These Egyptians may not have the technical schooling we do, but they appear to understand what their enemy is moving towards.
I hate that we mock them for this!
Thank you Dave Raggett
Fortunately not all countries in the region are that batshit crazy.. Turkish authorities recently cleared a bird suspected of spying for Israel.. such a shame the bird in question wasn't a Turkey as that would have made for some great headlines - "Turkey spies for Israel!" followed by "Turkey clears Turkey!" etc.
[People said]: we've been doing this for generations and the birds aren't coming like they used to. The Egyptians have mist nets along the Mediterranean coast line. Five hundred miles of continuous nets without a break catching every quail that comes in. The populations of quail are just nose-diving in Europe and they would say, you know, we're not getting anywhere near the number of quail that we used to. I wonder why. Maybe it has to do with more city lights, or development, maybe they are hunting more in Europe. It has to do with a lot of things, but I didn't hear anyone take responsibility and say I wonder if it has to do with the fact that I, personally, took nearly a thousand quail on my 300-foot stretch of net this season.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
If it looks like a Swan and acts like a Swan , its sued to buggery by a patent troll.
I'd laugh, mocking "backwards" Egyptians for putting a stork in a jail cell, except we in the US executed a baby deer, complete with body bag.
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man...you're way off...
"Army's new robot so realistic it gets attacked by hawks"
see for yourself: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/6/armys-new-robotic-bird-drone-so-realistic-it-gets-/
I call bullshit on you and everyone mocking these people.
They don't know what they are looking at for sure until they capture it...or what this article calls 'detaining'...it is obvious the news writers are mocking them and trying to use reverse propaganda.
Just reading the *two* articles I presented, that is evidence enough to any reasonable person that this is not dumb or paranoid just good sense.
Sure, these guys don't have our education! But they know implicitly where things are headed...
The Army admits to having very lifelike bird-drones...that's it
Thank you Dave Raggett
I knew I should have sent a raven instead of that stool pigeon!
I lost my sig...
...of making you squawk.
I bet he communicated to command & control via a series of tweets.
Great cover handles! The "Stork" and the "Condor" ! Wonder which is the double agent? Do they reoport to "The Seagull"? And how did they find out about the plot.. did they have a "pigeon" in the roost?
This seems inadequate...
Da derp dee derp da teedly derpee derpee dum. Rated PG-13.