Isreali vulture detained for espionage

Deadbeat · 5 Jan 2011 at 15:31

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12120259

Nice that Israel's "wildlife officials" are expressing such concerns over the bird's welfare

A particularly lolworthy quote:

Israeli officials told Ma'ariv they were "stunned" by the allegations and concerned that the bird could meet a horrible punishment in the notoriously severe Saudi justice system.

Apologies for the RSS smash & grab, but there seems to be someone coughing up blood in the next room...

Von Smallhausen · 5 Jan 2011 at 15:35

Saudi justice will be Swift.

Cosimo · 5 Jan 2011 at 15:35

"Now, this poor bird is paying a terrible price. That's very sad," said the unnamed expert.

"I hope they release the poor thing."

Just what I thought. The Saudis will probably torture it and cook it for dinner.

OriginalJonty · 5 Jan 2011 at 15:37

Saudi's must have got confused when they heard the bird is the word...

wordy · 5 Jan 2011 at 15:42

Look at it's eyes!

That's one set of beady, untrustworthy eyes if I've ever seen one. Good on the Saudi's!

StoutMeister · 5 Jan 2011 at 15:44

;"The device does nothing more than receive and store basic data about the bird's whereabouts said:

AtticusFinch · 5 Jan 2011 at 15:44

It wouldn't surprise me if the Israelis were up to something - they have an extensive track record in espoionage and dodgy-dealings.

slambo69 · 5 Jan 2011 at 15:53

I hope they tweet it well, but this news is certainly hard to swallow. Something like this would never happen here, or any other island like the canaries.

mmj_uk · 5 Jan 2011 at 16:17

It could have had a small camera with satellite uplink for all we know, Israel are hardly going to admit to it when it's much easier to just mock Saudi Arabia through Western media.

Deadbeat · 5 Jan 2011 at 16:29

AtticusFinch said:
It wouldn't surprise me if the Israelis were up to something - they have an extensive track record in espoionage and dodgy-dealings.

That they do...

The vulture is the latest animal to be accused of being an unwitting Mossad operative.

In December, the governor of Egypt's South Sinai province, Mohamed Abdul Fadil Shousha, suggested the spy agency may have had a hand in a string of deadly shark attacks off the coast of the Sharm el-Sheikh resort.

He said it was "not out of the question" that Mossad had put the killer shark in the area.

The Israeli foreign ministry dismissed that allegation, saying the governor "must have seen Jaws one time too many, and confuses fact and fiction".

KNiVES · 5 Jan 2011 at 16:31

Butcher the bird and send the remains back to the Zionists. They deserve nothing more, and it's little pittance for the untold pain and misery these people have caused.

Israelis are scum and everything they do should be treated with suspicion.

Cosimo · 5 Jan 2011 at 16:35

KNiVES said:
Butcher the bird and send the remains back to the Zionists. They deserve nothing more, and it's little pittance for the untold pain and misery these people have caused.

Israelis are scum and everything they do should be treated with suspicion.

I hear the sound of scum doing some trolling.

Fenris · 5 Jan 2011 at 16:38

KNiVES said:
Butcher the bird and send the remains back to the Zionists. They deserve nothing more, and it's little pittance for the untold pain and misery these people have caused.

Israelis are scum and everything they do should be treated with suspicion.

Blimey, 10 posts in and we've already got racism and bigotry, new record perhaps?

Also yes, I hope they release the bird, I mean.....it's just a bird.

Cosimo · 5 Jan 2011 at 16:47

StoutMeister · 5 Jan 2011 at 17:00

KNiVES said:
Butcher the bird and send the remains back to the Zionists. They deserve nothing more, and it's little pittance for the untold pain and misery these people have caused.

Israelis are scum and everything they do should be treated with suspicion.

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GingerNinja1989 · 5 Jan 2011 at 17:10

slambo69 said:
I hope they tweet it well, but this news is certainly hard to swallow. Something like this would never happen here, or any other island like the canaries.

Insta-ban tbh.

Why don't they just release the bird and keep the device, if they're that worried about it?

EdGey · 5 Jan 2011 at 17:34

Pointless.

ElliorR · 5 Jan 2011 at 18:03

Von Smallhausen said:
Saudi justice will be Swift.

It'll certainly be hard to Swallow.

Greenlizard0 · 5 Jan 2011 at 18:25

Urgh, the Middle East is just full of boobies.

eh? eh?

Tefal · 5 Jan 2011 at 18:28

KNiVES said:
Butcher the bird and send the remains back to the Zionists. They deserve nothing more, and it's little pittance for the untold pain and misery these people have caused.

Israelis are scum and everything they do should be treated with suspicion.

So in pc gaming some people saying the Russians/French are selfish players thread gets lock due to "omg racisms" but this this is fine?