Egypt Spy Bird: Authorities Detain Migratory Bird Citizen Deemed Suspicious

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Egypt Spy Bird: Authorities Detain Migratory Bird Citizen Deemed Suspicious

08/31/13 03:08 PM ET EDT AP

CAIRO -- 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.

There, officers and the man puzzled over the electronic device attached to the suspected winged infiltrator. On Saturday, a veterinary committee called by concerned government officials determined the device was neither a bomb nor a spying device.

Instead, they discovered it was a wildlife tracker used by French scientists to follow the movement of migrating birds, said Ayman Abdallah, the head of Qena veterinary services. Abdallah said the device stopped working when the bird crossed the French border, absolving it of being an avian Mata Hari.

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[DeSwiss]

1. Our guys wouldn't be interested in the birds.....

...unless they have email accounts.

- Then, it's a different story.

[Iliyah]

2. LOL

U never know about "R" guys

LOL LOL

[countmyvote4real]

3. Tweet sweet. n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Oh, swell.

The CIA's next move will be to put spy cameras on migratory birds because everything will think the device is a tracker.

[MineralMan]

5. This is very funny stuff.

And it indicates the differences between countries. In Egypt, apparently, nobody's ever heard of tracking devices like this, so they're obviously some sort of spying device.

I doubt that would be the case in many other places in the world, but would be the case in many, as well.

There is a knowledge disconnect here.