Off topic joke
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:54 am
From Nicholas Kristoff at the NYT:
Since the C.I.A. and F.B.I. are reluctant to torture suspected terrorists (unless they are very high-value suspects who might know where Osama is, in which case we subject them to near drowning), we’ve traditionally farmed out our torture to friendly governments. In other words, we hand over a suspect to police in the Philippines, Indonesia or, especially, Egypt, and they get the guy to talk. Egypt has been especially reliable in this regard.
An Egyptian friend sent me this joke to explain why:
The Egyptian Police, the FBI, and the CIA are each trying to prove they are the best at apprehending criminals..... So President Mubarak decided to give them a test. He releases a rabbit into a forest and asked them to catch it.
The CIA goes in. They place animal informants throughout the forest. They question all plant and mineral witnesses. After three months of extensive investigations, the CIA concluded that rabbits do not exist.
The FBI goes in. After two weeks with no leads, the FBI burns the forest, killing everything in it, including the rabbit.
The Egyptian Police goes in. They come out two hours later with a badly beaten bear. The bear is yelling: "Okay! Okay! I'm a rabbit! I'm a rabbit! I'm a rabbit."
Joel
Since the C.I.A. and F.B.I. are reluctant to torture suspected terrorists (unless they are very high-value suspects who might know where Osama is, in which case we subject them to near drowning), we’ve traditionally farmed out our torture to friendly governments. In other words, we hand over a suspect to police in the Philippines, Indonesia or, especially, Egypt, and they get the guy to talk. Egypt has been especially reliable in this regard.
An Egyptian friend sent me this joke to explain why:
The Egyptian Police, the FBI, and the CIA are each trying to prove they are the best at apprehending criminals..... So President Mubarak decided to give them a test. He releases a rabbit into a forest and asked them to catch it.
The CIA goes in. They place animal informants throughout the forest. They question all plant and mineral witnesses. After three months of extensive investigations, the CIA concluded that rabbits do not exist.
The FBI goes in. After two weeks with no leads, the FBI burns the forest, killing everything in it, including the rabbit.
The Egyptian Police goes in. They come out two hours later with a badly beaten bear. The bear is yelling: "Okay! Okay! I'm a rabbit! I'm a rabbit! I'm a rabbit."
Joel
