The Dead Stork Story: Sounds Like a Monty Python Sketch--But It's Not
A stork (you know, the bird that's supposed to deliver babies) accused of being a Mossad agent has come to a sticky end in Egypt:
Last month Egyptian authorities detained a suspicious stork wearing a European wildlife tracker, believing it to be a spy. The stork, which it turns out wasn’t dropping off a secret spy baby, was later set free. However, the bird didn’t go on to live a long and happy life—it was found dead three days ago on an island in the Nile.
Even in death, the suspect stork is still embroiled in controversy. The Egyptian wildlife organization wrote on its Facebook page that the bird was “eaten by local villagers,” although Mahmoud Hassib, the head of Egypt’s southern protected areas, said the bird was definitely not eaten, though he failed to offer an alternative cause of death. Do they do animal autopsies in Egypt?
This is just the latest in the bizarre trend of Middle East animal spy claims. Most often, though, the animals are accused of working for the Mossad...
3 comments:
Well, Scaramouche, if you had been closely following zoospionage news from northeast Africa, you would know that Mossad has infiltrated killer sharks into Egyptian waters and spy-vultures into Sudanese air space . . . so what's so hard to believe about a spy-stork being discovered near the Aswan High Dam? If you wanted to cripple what is left of Egypt's economy, wouldn't blowing up the dam, which supplies about 15% of the country's electricity, wouldn't infiltrating Zionist storks especially trained in demolition be a logical sabotage action?
If you don't mind my saying so, I think your problem is that you are stuck in the Western linear-logic, evidence-based analytical paradigm. I suggest you read Gabriel Garcia Marquez's _One Hundred Years of Solitude_, to get outside the narrow mental straitjacket. Magical thinking is where it's at in the Third World (which, come to think about it, has come to the the Greater Toronto Metropolitan Area).
I went through a magical realism phase some years ago and read it and others by GGM. Ever since I found out that he's a huge fan of Fidel Castro and Communism I haven't been able to read him, though.
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