Arab Chicken and the Mukhabarat: Poor Arab chicken. Now that there is fear of Avian flu, the Arab intelligence services must be hard at work. They must be interrogating and torturing chicken to get to the bottom of this case. There must be torture of chicken taking place as we speak: secret police want to know how the chicken got the flu. They want to know who they met and who they talked to. They must be threatening the poor chicken with McNugget fate if they don't report on other chicken. IT is not easy being a chicken in Arab lands. The Jordanian mukhabarat must be grilling the chicken about their links to Palestinian organizations; the Syrian mukhabarat wants to know if the chicken ever said a nasty word about the Ba`th; the Lebanese mukhabarat wants the chicken to report about the presence of dangerous Syrian chicken among them; the Egyptian mukhabarat wants to know if there are chicken who sympathize with the Muslim Brothers; Israeli mukhabarat wants to know the location of "terrorist" chicken; the Saudi mukhabarat wants to know if the chicken adhere to Wahhabiyyah standards. Poor chicken of the Middle East.