In Florida, even the alligators are terrorists

[DoYouEverWonder]

Now that BushCo wants to turn us all into terrorists, so that he can further split the country, I just thought the world should know how dangerous it really is down here in FL. And how one brave alligator shut down a super-secret spy mission.

Oct 24, 1999

It must be the only occasion in U.S. history when an alligator is known to have stood in the way of efforts to protect the national security. It is also a good Florida yarn. In the mid-1970s, according to newly declassified information, the National Security Agency flew a super-secret, unmanned gliderlike spy plane - Compass Cope-R - over Lake Okeechobee to eavesdrop on Fidel Castro. The craft took off and landed without a pilot on a small runway at Cape Canaveral, and controllers on the ground handled it like a manned plane. It intercepted the Castro government's voice conversations and electronic military radar emissions, transmitting the signals to vans operated by the Air Force and the National Security Agency at Patrick Air Force Base near Cape Canaveral. Until the end, it was a highly successful project, according to National Journal News Service, which uncovered the records of Compass Cope and interviewed Norman Sakamoto, the project chief. Sakamoto said the Compass Cope was unable to land after its 12th and final mission because a wandering alligator was blocking the runway. The aircraft had to circle while a man in the back of a pickup truck lassoed the alligator and dragged it from the runway.

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/45795770.html?dids=45795770:45795770&FMT=FT&FMTS=CITE:FT&date=Oct+24%2C+1999&author=SARA+FRITZ&pub=St.+Petersburg+Times&edition=&startpage=5.A&desc=Gator+on+cape+runway+stalled+spy+plane+flight+Series%3A+WASHINGTON+JOURNAL

(Here's a picture of the terrorist living in an undisclosed location in No. FL)

[flyingfysh]

1. I recognize that picture!

It's the new Al Qaeda #2! (and he looks just like #3, #4, #5, etc)

[pberq]

2. I heard somewhere that this terrorist takes orders from

Osama bin Laden himself.

[shain from kane]

3. Do people that wear Izod shirts secretly support terrorists? n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. You never know

But I did hear about a gator that died and went to heaven. When he got to the pearly gates, St. Peter told he'd been a very good gator and ask him what he would like for a reward. The gator responded, 'A polo shirt with a little Jew on it?'

[shain from kane]

5. All gators go to heaven? n/t