Thursday, October 09, 2008

"The Man (and Woman) Who Knew Too Much"!



OK, so some American tourists travelling in the Middle East get confused for spies in an Alfred Hitchcock movie, so what? The recent flap on the border of Syria and Lebanon might make a good jumping off point for a Hollywood re-make of the original that starred Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day. So we may still be using newspapers and other media as cover for secret agents, so what? As anyone will tell you these is a very thin line between someone asking questions overseas as a curious freelance reporter and asking the very same questions as a CIA agent or freelance intel contractor...
Oddly enough a story today from the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) mis-reported "missing American journalists" Holli Chmella and Taylor Luck's names as "Holy Robin Shmella and (get this!), "Taylor LANGLEY Luke! Oy Vey! The CIA HQ is in Langley Virginia... certainly a coincidence.

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