Stupid Statements

It started from this. A small interview with Mohammed ElBaradei the chief of the Intertanional Agency for Atomic Energy in Al Hayat. What are the odds of El Baradei speaking of Romania in an interview for Al Hayat? Come on, guess. Going once, going twice...Oh well i should given you a hint. Ya, the thing that links us all, japanese, pakistani, russian, french, british, american whatever. No? Not yet? Ok ok. I just have to tell you. It's mighty AL QAIDA. I bet you didn't see that coming, did you?
Well, MR. ElBaradei seems to think that Al Qaida is panning a nuclear attack! Ya, a nuclear attack in London, Cairo or whatever big city in this world. What does that have to do with Romania? Well, you wouldn't think of it in a million years. The nuclear items might just come from Romania. opr Ucraine, or any other former Soviet country. This is where things got out of control. Somebody translated the interview into Italian, and somebody else found the Italian version of the story and translated it into Romanian. Hehe, dear Romanian media. Of course we had to cover that! I got messages from like 5 people around the newsroom. We, Romanians, are so obssessed with what other people write about us! We couldn't miss something as fun and exotic as NUCLEAR, could we?
We broadcast the story on the 6pm o'clock news on Antena3. By 8pm, the Romanian Information Service had reacted. We have no information of any Al Qaida trying to buy nuclear stuff from Romania, they said. Then there was the guy from the National Commission for the Suveillace blah blah blah who started hurassing the evening editor, asking her for sources and stuff, like he couldn't just open the damn google and find the newsstory himself.
On the other hand, byond the hysterical people in Romania reacting to stupid statemens, there was an older news story in the european mainstream media like a year and a half ago. I remember cause i covered it. Some journalist believed that the former Romanian nuclear facilities were not properly guarded. That story probably made it to the ElBaradaei press file, and into his memory. Damn globalization.