Snip: This 50-kilometre stretch of the Mexico-US border about 60 kilometres from Tucson, where George Bush gave a major speech last week on illegal immigration, is one of the key entry points for illegal immigrants.
And it is along this forbidding stretch of country that Connie Foust and Carmen Mercer, known locally as the Granny Brigade, have spent many of their nights these past eight months patrolling the border.
Clevelander's homing pigeon towed in as Israeli spy
Snip: The girls were instructed to take the pigeon back with them to their yeshiva, write a note and attach it to the pigeon’s foot. (The pigeon’s owner gave them the bird in a cake box; thus the name Uga which means cake in Hebrew). Within 24 hours, they were told, Uga would return to its native coop.
Instead, the pigeon got lost and ended up in Lebanese territory. It was caught by Lebanese soldiers who thought the girls’ message was anything from a cryptic code to a message between lovers. Or worse, that the Israelis were sending a bird infected with avian flu into their country.
I don't think that many people have any idea of the size of the MinuteMan movement.
Many groups have formed, with the same goals, but not the same name.
Have you ever looked into the history of homing pidgons? it is an interesting search and they have been used as spies for thousands of years.
As my memory goes, they were used quite a bit in WW2.
I had a coup of them for several years, I like to see them fly. Laughing, as I think of my friend Mary, who often came and got my babies, for dinner. Hers.......
Of course they could spread bird flu, but my first thought was of the booby trapped toys in Iraq and the Teddy Bear with a gun in it, in Florida.