How CIA messes things up
The Nevada gambler, al-Qaida, the CIA and the mother of all cons
The intelligence reports fitted the suspicions of the time: al-Qaida sleeper agents were scattered across the US awaiting orders that were broadcast in secret codes over the al-Jazeera television network.
Flights from Britain and France were cancelled. Officials warned of a looming "spectacular attack" to rival 9/11. In 2003 President Bush's homeland security tsar, Tom Ridge, spoke of a "credible source" whose information had US military bracing for a new terrorist onslaught.
Then suddenly no more was said.
Six years later, Playboy magazine has revealed that the CIA fell victim to an elaborate con by a compulsive gambler who claimed to have developed software that discovered al-Jazeera broadcasts were being used to transmit messages to terrorists buried deep in America.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/23/dennis-montgomery-cia-al-jaz...
Tell us something new about al-Jazeera television network.
I prefer to be inhaling laughing gas instead of listening to them.
Some people in QL are really smoking some form of crack all the time. To be cracking jokes about international issues.