After a number of rounds of “We don’t know if Osama Bin Laden is
still alive”, Osama decided to personally send President Bush a
letter in his own handwriting to let him know he was “still in the
game”.
Mr. Bush opened the letter, which contained a single line of
“coded” message:
370HSSV-0773H
Mr. Bush was baffled, so he sent copies to his Chief of Staff,
and several Secretaries, including Condi Rice and Donald Rumsfeld.
Their assistants and aides had no clue as to the meaning or
translation of the code, so it was sent to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, then to the CIA and also to
NASA. With no clue to the translation, they
eventually asked Israel’s MOSAD for help.
Within a minute, MOSAD cabled the White
House with this reply:
“Tell the President he is holding the message upside down.”
