Forum » Topic: Naïve Americans duped by Iraqi Lacrosse team, UK officials’ spot document error

Forum » Topic: Naïve Americans duped by Iraqi Lacrosse team, UK officials’ spot document error http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8567 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 12:56:05 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php Svendo on "Naïve Americans duped by Iraqi Lacrosse team, UK officials’ spot document error" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8567#post-23048 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:06:47 +0000 Svendo 23048@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Damn I was just going to post something along these very lines. I suppose you should have some stars then... Erlang on "Naïve Americans duped by Iraqi Lacrosse team, UK officials’ spot document error" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8567#post-23047 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:59:24 +0000 Erlang 23047@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Alert UK officials have uncovered an elaborate plot which has seemingly taken in American officials. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton naively believed that Iraqi dissidents were in fact members of a fictional nation “The Iroquois Confederacy”. UK Border agents quickly spotted the error, a spokesman saying “if it’s not in our Atlas then it’s not recognised and doesn’t exist, and they hadn’t really tried that hard, after all when you say Iroquois it is obviously a play on words.”