# Saudi Arabia 'detains' Israeli vulture for spying

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**Created:** [January 5, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/saudi-arabia-detains-israeli-vulture-for-spying/207872 "2011-01-05T12:54:47Z")\
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seriously? First egypt accuses shark attacks on Israel, now this.

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> **Saudi Arabia ‘detains’ Israeli vulture for spying**

> Saudi Arabian officials have “detained” a vulture on accusations of being a spy for Israel, media reports say. The griffon vulture was carrying a GPS transmitter bearing the name of Tel Aviv University, prompting rumours it was part of a Zionist plot.  
> Israeli wildlife officials dismissed the claims as ludicrous and expressed concern about the bird’s fate.  
> Last month, Egyptian officials implied the Israeli spy agency Mossad was to blame for shark attacks off its coast.  
> The vulture, which can have a wing span of up to 265cm (8ft 8in), was caught after it landed in the desert city of Hyaal a few days ago.  
> When locals discovered the GPS transmitter, they suspected the worst and handed it over to the security forces, said Israel’s Ma’ariv newspaper.  
> Conspiracy theories quickly began circulating in Saudi newspapers and on websites that the bird was involved in espionage.  
> ‘Terrible price’ Israeli officials told Ma’ariv they were “stunned” by the allegations and concerned that the bird could meet a horrible punishment in the notoriously severe Saudi justice system.  
> “The device does nothing more than receive and store basic data about the bird’s whereabouts, and about his altitude and speed,” a bird specialist at Israel’s Park and Nature Authority told the newspaper.  
> The data would be used to improve understanding of the endangered species’ behaviour.  
> “Now, this poor bird is paying a terrible price. That’s very sad,” said the unnamed expert.  
> “I hope they release the poor thing.”  
> The vulture is the latest animal to be accused of being an unwitting Mossad operative.  
> In December, the governor of Egypt’s South Sinai province, Mohamed Abdul Fadil Shousha, suggested the spy agency may have had a hand in a string of deadly shark attacks off the coast of the Sharm el-Sheikh resort.  
> He said it was “not out of the question” that Mossad had put the killer shark in the area.  
> The Israeli foreign ministry dismissed that allegation, saying the governor “must have seen Jaws one time too many, and confuses fact and fiction”

> **[Saudi Arabia 'detains' Israeli vulture for spying](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12120259)**
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> A vulture wearing a GPS device is 'detained' by Saudi Arabian officials on accusations of spying for Israel, say reports.

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