Pigeon with a chip lands in Gujarat, sparks security fear

[Donatello]

NEW DELHI: This is one "kabootarbaazi" that has the Gujarat police, Coast Guard, forest department, forensic experts and now even the Union home ministry, scratching their heads. A pigeon lost at sea was spotted sipping water from a bowl at the under-construction Essar jetty at Salaya shore in Devbumi Dwarka, Gujarat, in the afternoon of March 20. The bird would have gone unnoticed but for its refusal to take flight when the Essar security guard tried to shoo him away. As the bewildered guard got hold of the daring bird, he spotted a chip tied to one of its claws and a ring with the number '28733' on the other claw. What is more, the bird had writings in Urdu/Arabic across its wings.

All hell broke loose thereafter. According to an intelligence report sent to the Centre by SP of Devbhumi Dwarka on March 24, the guard rushed with the 'intruder' bird and reported the matter to his superior. The 'winged suspect' was 'detained' for a day but his owner was nowhere to be found. Fearing that arrival of the "tagged" pigeon could pose a security threat, the Essar security personnel decided to alert Coast Guard officials at Vadinar and hand them the bird "for further investigation".

The Coast Guard, which leaves nothing to chance after a sea-borne infiltration in 2008 culminated in India's worst terror attack, spent a day wondering what to do with the "tagged and marked" intruder that its officers couldn't even interrogate. On March 23, the pigeon was remanded to police custody after the Coast Guard officials contacted the Vadinar Marine police station and asked it to join the multi-agency probe into its antecedents. The officer in charge of the Vadinar marine police station made a station diary entry No 12/2015 at 1215 hours on March 23 and opted for a "strip search" of the suspect. The forensic officer was called in and made to take out the ring and chip from the pigeon's feet. These items were sent to Forensic Science Laboratory, Gandhinagar for a closer examination.

The chip was found to have the writings 'Benjing Dual' inscribed on it. This was googled by the agencies who found that 'Benzing Dual' is a sensor chip used for racing pigeons. Further, the Urdu/Arabic writings in blue on the pigeon's wings was interpreted as "Rasul-ul-Allah' (messenger of Allah).

The Devbhumi Dwarka SP also informed the home ministry that the opinion of the forest officials was sought about the possible intentions of the pigeon. Their feedback was that such pigeons are mostly found in northern India and used for racing in foreign countries. The forest officials opined that the pigeon in question may have slipped out of captivity while on a ship in the deep sea and flown to the shores in search of drinking water.

Incidentally, the case does not rest there. As Gujarat has duly informed the Union home ministry, the findings so far are "primary information we have and further investigation is going on".

Unfortunately, the pigeon could not be contacted for its version!

Source:-
Pigeon with a chip lands in Gujarat, sparks security fear - The Times of India


*A slow clap*

 

[Zarvan]

NEW DELHI: This is one "kabootarbaazi" that has the Gujarat police, Coast Guard, forest department, forensic experts and now even the Union home ministry, scratching their heads. A pigeon lost at sea was spotted sipping water from a bowl at the under-construction Essar jetty at Salaya shore in Devbumi Dwarka, Gujarat, in the afternoon of March 20. The bird would have gone unnoticed but for its refusal to take flight when the Essar security guard tried to shoo him away. As the bewildered guard got hold of the daring bird, he spotted a chip tied to one of its claws and a ring with the number '28733' on the other claw. What is more, the bird had writings in Urdu/Arabic across its wings.

All hell broke loose thereafter. According to an intelligence report sent to the Centre by SP of Devbhumi Dwarka on March 24, the guard rushed with the 'intruder' bird and reported the matter to his superior. The 'winged suspect' was 'detained' for a day but his owner was nowhere to be found. Fearing that arrival of the "tagged" pigeon could pose a security threat, the Essar security personnel decided to alert Coast Guard officials at Vadinar and hand them the bird "for further investigation".

The Coast Guard, which leaves nothing to chance after a sea-borne infiltration in 2008 culminated in India's worst terror attack, spent a day wondering what to do with the "tagged and marked" intruder that its officers couldn't even interrogate. On March 23, the pigeon was remanded to police custody after the Coast Guard officials contacted the Vadinar Marine police station and asked it to join the multi-agency probe into its antecedents. The officer in charge of the Vadinar marine police station made a station diary entry No 12/2015 at 1215 hours on March 23 and opted for a "strip search" of the suspect. The forensic officer was called in and made to take out the ring and chip from the pigeon's feet. These items were sent to Forensic Science Laboratory, Gandhinagar for a closer examination.

The chip was found to have the writings 'Benjing Dual' inscribed on it. This was googled by the agencies who found that 'Benzing Dual' is a sensor chip used for racing pigeons. Further, the Urdu/Arabic writings in blue on the pigeon's wings was interpreted as "Rasul-ul-Allah' (messenger of Allah).

The Devbhumi Dwarka SP also informed the home ministry that the opinion of the forest officials was sought about the possible intentions of the pigeon. Their feedback was that such pigeons are mostly found in northern India and used for racing in foreign countries. The forest officials opined that the pigeon in question may have slipped out of captivity while on a ship in the deep sea and flown to the shores in search of drinking water.

Incidentally, the case does not rest there. As Gujarat has duly informed the Union home ministry, the findings so far are "primary information we have and further investigation is going on".

Unfortunately, the pigeon could not be contacted for its version!

Source:-
Pigeon with a chip lands in Gujarat, sparks security fear - The Times of India


*A slow clap*

I love Indian media and crap

 

[xTra]

I love Indian media and crap

You Love Crap...........

 

[nair]

Unfortunately, the pigeon could not be contacted for its version!

LOL.........

 

[45'22']

Viswaroopam

 

[Soumitra]

The CIA’s Most Highly-Trained Spies Weren’t Even Human
As a former trainer reveals, the U.S. government deployed nonhuman operatives—ravens, pigeons, even cats—to spy on cold war adversaries

Half a world away from the murk of the cold war, it would be a typical day at the I.Q. Zoo, one of the touristic palaces that dotted the streets of Hot Springs, Arkansas, in the 1960s. With their vacationing parents inca tow, children would squeal as they watched chickens play baseball, macaws ride bicycles, ducks drumming and pigs pawing at pianos. You would find much the same in any number of mom-and-pop theme parks or on television variety shows of the era. But chances are that if an animal had been trained to do something whimsically human, the animal—or the technique—came from Hot Springs.

Two scenes, seemingly disjointed: the John le Carré shadows against the bright midway lights of county-fair Americana. But wars make strange bedfellows, and in one of the most curious, if little-known, stories of the cold war, the people involved in making poultry dance or getting cows to play bingo were also involved in training animals, under government contract, for defense and intelligence work. The same methods that lay behind Priscilla the Fastidious Pig or the Educated Hen informed projects such as training ravens to deposit and retrieve objects, pigeons to warn of enemy ambushes, or even cats to eavesdrop on human conversations. At the center of this Venn diagram were two acolytes of the psychologist B.F. Skinner, plus Bob Bailey, the first director of training for the Navy’s pioneering dolphin program. The use of animals in military intelligence dates back to ancient Greece, but the work that this trio undertook in the 1960s promised an entirely new level of sophistication, as if James Bond’s Q had met Marlin Perkins.

History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian

 

[Biplab Bijay]

You Love Crap...........

Ok. so he loves crap. lol

 

[hunter_hunted]

Damn you ISI our drone fell today ........

 

[OrionHunter]

NEW DELHI: This is one "kabootarbaazi" that has the Gujarat police, Coast Guard, forest department, forensic experts and now even the Union home ministry, scratching their heads. A pigeon lost at sea was spotted sipping water from a bowl at the under-construction Essar jetty at Salaya shore in Devbumi Dwarka, Gujarat, in the afternoon of March 20. The bird would have gone unnoticed but for its refusal to take flight when the Essar security guard tried to shoo him away. As the bewildered guard got hold of the daring bird, he spotted a chip tied to one of its claws and a ring with the number '28733' on the other claw. What is more, the bird had writings in Urdu/Arabic across its wings.

All hell broke loose thereafter. According to an intelligence report sent to the Centre by SP of Devbhumi Dwarka on March 24, the guard rushed with the 'intruder' bird and reported the matter to his superior. The 'winged suspect' was 'detained' for a day but his owner was nowhere to be found. Fearing that arrival of the "tagged" pigeon could pose a security threat, the Essar security personnel decided to alert Coast Guard officials at Vadinar and hand them the bird "for further investigation".

The Coast Guard, which leaves nothing to chance after a sea-borne infiltration in 2008 culminated in India's worst terror attack, spent a day wondering what to do with the "tagged and marked" intruder that its officers couldn't even interrogate. On March 23, the pigeon was remanded to police custody after the Coast Guard officials contacted the Vadinar Marine police station and asked it to join the multi-agency probe into its antecedents. The officer in charge of the Vadinar marine police station made a station diary entry No 12/2015 at 1215 hours on March 23 and opted for a "strip search" of the suspect. The forensic officer was called in and made to take out the ring and chip from the pigeon's feet. These items were sent to Forensic Science Laboratory, Gandhinagar for a closer examination.

The chip was found to have the writings 'Benjing Dual' inscribed on it. This was googled by the agencies who found that 'Benzing Dual' is a sensor chip used for racing pigeons. Further, the Urdu/Arabic writings in blue on the pigeon's wings was interpreted as "Rasul-ul-Allah' (messenger of Allah).

The Devbhumi Dwarka SP also informed the home ministry that the opinion of the forest officials was sought about the possible intentions of the pigeon. Their feedback was that such pigeons are mostly found in northern India and used for racing in foreign countries. The forest officials opined that the pigeon in question may have slipped out of captivity while on a ship in the deep sea and flown to the shores in search of drinking water.

Incidentally, the case does not rest there. As Gujarat has duly informed the Union home ministry, the findings so far are "primary information we have and further investigation is going on".

Unfortunately, the pigeon could not be contacted for its version!

Source:-
Pigeon with a chip lands in Gujarat, sparks security fear - The Times of India


*A slow clap*

Wow! Next time we need be careful. They're trained by the ISI...They are intelligent and can read. They've become a clear and present danger!

 

[Donatello]

LOL.........

Don't know if they really wanted to publish the article..........or wanted to show us that they got some crack cocaine to smoke.

Wow! Next time we need be careful. They're trained by the ISI...They are intelligent and can read. They've become a clear and present danger!

Yup, Urdu and Arabic trained. Also potty trained......so as not to leave a trail behind.

 

[Death Adder]

 

[indianBong]

Now pigeon also started trolling!!!
Well can't blame intellignce agencies as no options can be put out o table....

 

[Windjammer]

Damn. a 'chipped' Pigeon had Indians running like a headless Chickens.
This isn't a first either, the BSF has been efficient in capturing spy hawks, pigeons and even suicidal camels in the past.
Seems these violent birds have been trained to specially target the Indian nationals.

 

[Rain]

cool interception, that pigeon was trained as suicide bomber to hit out at Modi during Gujrat visit. Unfortunately pigeon rethought his mission and drop the bombs in the sea and went in search of Anushka to convey her the Greetings/consolations. But fortunatly the navigation chip malfunctioned and Bird landed in Gujrat instead of Mumbai.

 

[Dubious]

This was googled by the agencies

Hawww...why didnt they ask the many PhD indians here on PDF?