Iran nails 'Spy Pigeons' near nuke site

Iranian security forces have apprehended a pair of "spy pigeons," not far from one of the country's nuclear processing plants. One of the pigeons was caught near a rose water production plant in the city of Kashan, down the road from the Natanz uranium enrichment facility. It had "a wired rod" and "invisible threads... fixed to its body," an unnamed source tells the Etemad Melli newspaper. A second, black pigeon was nabbed earlier in the month. In 2007, homing pigeons were accused of collecting ransoms in a Baghdad kidnapping plot. Late last year, Seymour Hersh alleges, the Bush administration approved $400 million to begin covert operations against Iran. There was no mention of pigeons in Hersh's report.