For the first time readers would be justified if they said that they read Playboy magazine for its articles. This was after they recently published an article that recounted one man's elaborate scam that had CIA believing that Al-Jazeera was sending coded messages to Al-Queda. The con-artist claimed that bar codes on Al-Jazeera's broadcast contained information about Al-Queda attacks. The man behind this was Dennis Montgomery, the head of a small software company in Reno. Due to this scam in President George W. Bush's administration raised the terror alert and cancelled several transatlantic flights in December 2003. Eventually with assistance from French Intelligence the CIA concluded that there were no secret messages in Al-Jazeera's broadcast.
I'm not sure whether to be upset about this or find this hysterical. On one hand there is the fact that the owner of a small company managed to fool all of the CIA, raise the terror alert and manage to actually get a significant amount of flights cancelled but, on the other hand one man still managed to fool the U.S. governement. If any moron with a crackpot theory can fool the U.S. governement I think we should start getting worried about our situation in this country, I mean think about all the time and resources that were probably wasted this absurd claim. Oh well what can you do, at least it was a fun read.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2009/12/22/playboy-goes-undercover-man-fooled-pentagon/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+foxnews%252Fscitech+%2528FOXNews.com+-+SciTech%2529
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