Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Egypt: 'Israeli Spy Stork' Killed and Eaten

By Elad Benari:
Stork (illustrative)
Stork (illustrative)
Flash 90
The latest “Israeli animal spy”, a stork that was detained by Egyptian police last week on suspicion of spying, has been killed and eaten, The Guardian reports.
Police detained the stork after a man saw a tag on it and caught it, suspecting it was a spying device.
The bird was spotted by a fisherman in the Nile River, in the Qena region, as it swam with other birds. The fisherman noticed that the bird had a device attached to its feathers, which he feared could be used to gather information.
Experts then examined the device to see if it could have been used to gather intelligence, but it turned out that the stork had been tagged by zoologists to track its migration, according to The Guardian...Continue reading...

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