Egyptian security puts spy duck under arrest

Egypt’s security puts ‘spy duck’ under arrest
Security forces declare a ‘quack-down’ on suspicious duck in Qena
governorate
Ahram Online, Saturday 31 Aug 2013

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/80411/Egypt/Politics-/Egypts-security-puts-spy-duck-under-arrest.aspx

Egypt’s police put a duck under arrest late Friday as a device was found
attached to its feathers, fueling accusations that it might have been used
for espionage, Al-Ahram Arabic-language news website reported.

According to Al-Ahram’s Arabic site, a fisherman in the Nile River of Egypt’s
southern governorate Qena caught the accused bird, which was among a group
of five ducks waddling in the freshwater.

The fisherman became suspicious that the device on the duck’s body could be
used for spying, prompting him to hand over the bird to the Coalition of
Arab Tribes in Qena, who in turn filed a police report.

An anonymous security official told Ahram Online on Saturday that security
and environmental experts are currently examining the device in order to
determine its intended purposes and whether or not the little bird has
repeated national secrets to anyone.

In January, a carrier pigeon was captured in the Egyptian governorate
Qalyubia (North of Cairo) and was sent to the Criminal Investigation
Department after a message was found attached to one of its feet and a
microfilm to the other.

In 2010, sensationalist reports surfaced in the local media on
“GPS-controlled sharks” allegedly sent by Israel to Sinai shores.