March 08, 2005
Osama Plots Again
from news.com.au
Those Al Qaeda boys sure are crafty:
IN one of the more bizarre terror plots hatched by al-Qaeda, Australian actor Russell Crowe was the target of a kidnapping scheme as part of a "cultural destabilisation plan".
Crowe has revealed he was approached by the FBI in the months leading up to his Academy Award win for Gladiator in 2001 and warned, vaguely, of the threat: "That was the first [time] I'd ever heard the phrase al-Qaeda. It was about - and here's another little touch of irony - taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as a sort of cultural destabilisation plan."
Proof, if ever, that Al Qaeda are getting desperate. I mean, Russel fucking Crowe? Why not an attractive young starlet? After three hours with Crowe, the terrorists would pay US to get rid of him.
Posted by Quentin George at March 8, 2005 06:21 AMThe irony is in them trying to kidnap an Australian actor in a plan to take 'iconographic Americans out of the picture'.
Posted by: Ron Atkinson at March 8, 2005 11:50 AM