Winner of BBC general knowledge show believes Israeli secret intelligence service is called “Al Qaeda”!
For anyone who believes that the average Brit has even the faintest idea of what is going on in the Middle East they might like to know that the winner of today’s general knowledge quiz show “The Weakest Link”, which runs weekdays on the BBC, had an interesting take on Israeli intelligence matters.
I just happened to be watching the last few minutes of the show which precedes the 6 o clock news when the final two contestants were fighting it out in a head to head. The contestant, Rob, was asked to name Israel’s most prominent secret intelligence service. With a shrug of his shoulders, he ventured his answer: “Al Qaeda”?
Even the notoriously severe Anne Robinson, who hosts the show, could not repress a despairing smile. The hapless Rob went on to win the show. God bless Britain’s finest…
Tags: Israel
November 10th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Like a good, intelligent, Brit, Rob has taken to multiculturism by reading the Arabic British newspapers. I am sure that many of them take for granted that Al Qaeda ia an Israeli agency mean to defame the world’s Moslems.
The sad thing is that Al Qaeda is slowly out-manuevering MI5 to become Britain’s most prominent secret intelligence service!
November 11th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Makes sense. After all, if Israel is the “biggest threat to world peace” and we’re all being attacked by a secret organization called Al Qaida, stands to reason Al Qaida must be Israeli.
November 22nd, 2009 at 9:20 am
Says it all doesn’t it?
I remember the reaction of people in my workplace when they first heard about the terrorist attacks on 7th July 2005 in London. They thought that the buses and trains had “malfunctioned”. When I told them equivocally that it must be an Al Qaeda terrorist attack, they looked at me as though I were mad.