370HSSV-0773H

Programming note: tomorrow I leave for India. I'll be there until March 3rd.

Osama contacts Bush

After numerous rounds of "We don't know if Osama is still alive," or "I
really don't think about him much anymore," Osama himself decided to
send George Bush a letter in his own handwriting to let him know he was
still in the game.

Bush opened the letter an it appeared to contain a single line of coded
message:

370HSSV-0773H

Bush was baffled, so he E-mailed it to Condi Rice. Condi and her aides
had no clue either, so they sent it to the FBI. No one could solve it at
the FBI so it went to the CIA, then to the NSA.

With no clue as to its meaning they eventually asked Britain's MI-6 for
help. Within a minute MI-6 cabled the White House with this reply:

"Tell the President he's holding the message upside down."