WMD evidence 'came from taxi driver'

[Bagpuss]

WMD evidence 'came from taxi driver'

That's funny because the idea of assassinating Ronald Regan also came from Taxi Driver

[Paddy]

Honest, guv, 'e's got anfrax, mustard gas, nucular and all the rest guv

Yeh, that’s why I had to take the long route in order to avoid 'em guv.

[Mich the Tester]

Honest, guv, 'e's got anfrax, mustard gas, nucular and all the rest guv

[perplexed]

Can just imagine it...

Taxi driver... "I had that Saddam Hussein in the back of me cab the other night, miserable bleeder, taking about his WMD's, QVC's, GCSE's..."

[TheFaQQer]

Thats nothing. I used to work with a weirdo and one night I got really annoyed when he wouldnt get his round in. So I told the cab driver this bloke was hacking into the Pentagon. McKenna,McKannon mcKinnon or something.
I wonder what became of him

Now, if they were talking about Paul McKenna facing 60 years in jail, I'd be pushing him onto the plane myself.

[EternalOptimist]

Thats nothing. I used to work with a weirdo and one night I got really annoyed when he wouldnt get his round in. So I told the cab driver this bloke was hacking into the Pentagon. McKenna,McKannon mcKinnon or something.
I wonder what became of him

[NickFitz]

Obligatory Our Man in Havana link: "Wormold's vacuum cleaner/missile base"

[chef]

WTF !!!!

[AtW]

A lot of intel comes from low level service people like this - it is much easier to recruit janitor who is paid bugger all to pick up and pass secrets, then top general who writes them.

What's retarded in this case is basing serious operation on the basis of handful such reports.

[Spacecadet]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8401473.stm

"In the end it turned out that the information was not credible, it had originated from an emigre taxi driver on the Iraqi-Jordanian border, who had remembered an overheard conversation in the back of his cab a full two years earlier."

If it wasn't for the film "The Tailor of Panama" I'd say you couldn't make this up!