Brilliant Turn By MI6 (In Chocolate And Butter-Cream)
It's "Operation Cupcake"! Duncan Gardham writes in the Telegraph/UK that Brit intelligence hacked into an al-Qaeda online magazine and replaced bomb-making directions with a cupcake recipe:
When followers tried to download the 67-page colour magazine, instead of instructions about how to "Make a bomb in the Kitchen of your Mom" by "The AQ Chef" they were greeted with garbled computer code.The code, which had been inserted into the original magazine by the British intelligence hackers, was actually a web page of recipes for "The Best Cupcakes in America" published by the Ellen DeGeneres chat show.
Written by Dulcy Israel and produced by Main Street Cupcakes in Hudson, Ohio, it said "the little cupcake is big again" adding: "Self-contained and satisfying, it summons memories of childhood even as it's updated for today's sweet-toothed hipsters."
It included a recipe for the Mojito Cupcake - "made of white rum cake and draped in vanilla buttercream"- and the Rocky Road Cupcake - "warning: sugar rush ahead!"
It'll blow your burka off!
via Kate Coe
It would have been batter if they'd included instructions for building an explosive so volatile that it would be mostly dangerous to the builder. Include in the instructions "start small to gain mastery and not raise suspicion".
I R A Darth Aggie at June 4, 2011 6:07 AM
God help us if they ever learn that the secret to a functioning nuke is bacon.
MarkD at June 4, 2011 7:21 PM
It would have been much better to change a few of the bomb ingredients to make the initial mixture unstable.
Cupcakes are good. Unexpected detonation is better.
Andrew_M_Garland at June 4, 2011 10:11 PM
Yea, and then the culturally suicidal PC assclowns would accuse them of murder and war crimes and genocide.
lujlp at June 5, 2011 9:59 AM
What's scary it that if you do a google for ingredients mentioned in the original Terminator movie -- you can quickly find websites on how to make TNT and plastic explosive analogs very easily.
Jim P. at June 5, 2011 6:55 PM
I'm always amazed that people assume chemistry is hard. Alot of times its easier then math
lujlp at June 6, 2011 2:53 PM
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