"ISTAN'S intelligence service probably let Chinese military engineers examine the wreckage of a super-secret US stealth helicopter that crashed during the May raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad." (SunHearld.com)
An unnamed official from PR Pakis, familiar with the usual double-dyed behaviour of the US's non compliant ally ,took it personally. "My friends, on behave of our nation, I'm deeply hurt." began Mr A from the Ministry of Double Speak, "my friends, he repeated; how can you think such things? I don't even own a camera and only once have I seen what you describe as a helicopter? We are your comrades in battle as steady as the moving desert sands; we chaps of Pakistan stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our dear American blood brothers, and by the Scimitar of Saladin we surely can't be trusted one decimal place. As to the the matter of your sneek-past-us Black Hawk; there is no truth in rumours that sensitive information has wafted towards Beijing. I sware on the waterlogged bones of one recently martyred; personally I've no knowledge of bamboo shoots or birds in the nest soup. I will spit on the graves of these soon to be deceased tall tale tellers. The oriental gentlemen some of you press persistently reference, were only in our country to open a chain of honorable Peking Shootin' Duck take-outs." He fingered his worry beads slowly, a swift brow moping then some major grooming of the horse hair of a moustache that occupied the mantelpiece atop his lip. "And now my friends of the western media; before the public holiday of traitor hanging, I shall take one more of your probing no-holds-barred questions.Yes Nick?" "Er, thanks. Nicky Naive, New York Times. "You really are on our side, aren't you...?
A Mexican wave of amusement rippled around the press room and out into the warm, still evening air. (Photo: AFP).
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| But surely everything has it's price, my Mandarin friends? |
A Mexican wave of amusement rippled around the press room and out into the warm, still evening air. (Photo: AFP).
