{"id":21714,"date":"2011-01-04T12:18:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T16:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21714"},"modified":"2011-01-04T12:18:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T16:18:12","slug":"vulture-arrested-for-espionage-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21714","title":{"rendered":"Vulture arrested for espionage in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe he wasn&#8217;t arrested formally, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/141529\">the Saudis seem to think he&#8217;s a Mossad agent<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Saudi Arabian security forces have captured a vulture that was carrying a global positioning satellite (GPS) transmitter and a ring etched with the words &#8220;Tel Aviv University.&#8221; They suspect the bird of spying for Israel, Maariv-NRG reported Tuesday. The GPS and ring were connected to the bird as part of an long-term project by Israeli scientists that follows vultures&#8217; location and altitude for research purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest of the vulture &#8211; whose identification code is R65 &#8211; comes several weeks after an Egyptian  official voiced the suspicion that a shark that attacked tourists off the Sinai shore was also acting on behalf of Mossad. The incidents may reflect a growing irrational hysteria among Arabs surrounding Israel&#8217;s military prowess and the efficacy of its intelligence services, possibly fueled by the Stuxnet virus&#8217; success..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The shark story had the added humor of the shark being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/this-exists-serbian-man-becomes-a-hero-after-accidentally-killing-a-terrifying-shark-while-drunk\/\">killed by a drunk Serb who fell on the fish<\/a> &#8211; that story was as true as the Mossad aspect.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that Gordon Duff has frightened the Arabs so badly that they see a Mossad agent behind every date tree these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe he wasn&#8217;t arrested formally, but the Saudis seem to think he&#8217;s a Mossad agent; &hellip; <a title=\"Vulture arrested for espionage in Saudi Arabia\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21714\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vulture arrested for espionage in Saudi Arabia<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-whackos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}