busted.

[Captain Sensible]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081020091136.9y3qoow5&show_article=1

we're busted again by Iran.

[Ian David]

1. Thom Harman called it. Pigeons are aliens from Planet Xenu! n/t

[YOY]

2. Not too sure of any site that tells me (in an advert) that McCain is going to be the next president.

Glad his IQ is higher than Chimpy's...I suspect most IQs are higher than Chimpy's real IQ.

[Ian David]

3. I've seen stranger things on The Science Channel, but pigeons with radiation badges...

... is probably not the most reliable method our high-tech spy apparatus has available to them.

My guess is:

1) This is a hoax.
2) They're pigeons kept by a hobbyist.
3) Iranian children are bored.
4) Some naturalist is tagging pigeons.
5) Someone from Psy-Ops is releasing these pigeons to make the Iranians paranoid and waste resources hunting down pigeons.
6) I tawt I taw a puddy tat!

[Buzz Clik]

4. Invisible strings? I wonder if they also have laser vision.

[Tutankhamun]

5. The "invisible strings" are the weirdest part of this story.

Were they fastened to the Pentagon so Cheney can slyly reel his aviary assassins in when necessary?

[annabanana]

6. why the hell bother with pigeons when we can spy right into their

socks & shoes from space anyway?

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Greenpeace: Free the Natanz Two!

As we’ve seen before, birds are the innocent victims in humankind’s push for nuclear power. Regular readers will know about the freezers at the Sellafield nuclear plant in the UK that are stuffed with seagulls shot by sharpshooters because the birds are radioactive after swimming in contaminated water.

The latest victims, it seems, are two pigeons arrested in Iran for espionage:

Iranian security forces have arrested two pigeons suspected of spying on one of the country's nuclear facilities. The birds were captured near the heavily-bunkered underground uranium enrichment plant in Natanz.

What fate awaits them at the hands of their Iranian captors? Are the pigeons willing conspirators or were they brainwashed by western intelligence agencies? Did the Natanz Two sell their services (we hope they amount of corn they were paid was worth it) or were they perhaps blackmailed by the CIA (their wives and kids being held against their will in a secret facility)? Either way, it’s a black day for pigeonkind.

http://weblog.greenpeace.org/nuclear-reaction/2008/10/free_the_natanz_two.html