Underground group releases 'MAGA' hat-wearing pigeons in downtown Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — Following the viral cowboy pigeons, many believed accessorized birds were a thing of the past. To those folks, one self-described "radical" group says, “Think again.” An otherwise normal flock of birds was let go in downtown Las Vegas Tuesday, on the eve of a crucial Democratic presidential debate.

However, to anyone paying attention, these birds had something very strange atop their bobbing heads: customized “Make America Great Again” hats. Only one of the pigeons was different, fitted with a small orange hairpiece meant to mimic President Trump.

The group behind the stunt is called P.U.T.I.N, an acronym for Pigeons United To Interfere Now, and according to their peculiar release sent out late Tuesday evening, they are anonymous underground radicals and their pigeons are trained. The group’s founder, Coo Hand Luke, says that the project came at the end of months of “exhaustive research, logistical hurdles and pigeon care taking,” adding that the release date was coordinated to serve as a sign of loyal support for President Trump.

The release says that the group was inspired by a Cold War-era CIA operation called “Tacana,” during which the intelligence agency explored using pigeons fitted with tiny cameras to spy on Soviet Union sites. Tuesday’s release was meant as a “kind of aerial protest piece,” the release says, against the Democratic candidates in Las Vegas ahead of Wednesday’s debate.

President Trump also arrived in Las Vegas on Tuesday night. He is scheduled for an event at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Headquarters on Thursday and a campaign rally on Friday. In January, about one month after the first cowboy pigeons were spotted in Las Vegas, a sombrero-wearing pigeon was seen in Reno. The Las Vegas cowboy pigeons entered international stardom after going viral, though the identity of the person (or persons) that put those cowboy hats on the pigeons remains a mystery.

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* Wahid Hamid a wealthy Pakistani freind of Obama when he was a freshmam. Hamid and Obama traveled to Karachi, Pakistan after graduation from Occidental and stayed with the family of Mohammed Hasan Chandoo. Hamid is now a vice president at Pepsico in New York City.

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* Sohale Siddiqi is identified as "Sadik" in Obama's memoir, Dreams From My Father, and is described as "a short, well-built Pakistani" who smoked marijuana, snorted cocaine and liked to party. Siddiqi was from Karachi, Pakistan, and Obama's roommate when he attended Columbia University. Siddiqi was not a student at Columbia and became an illegal having over stay his tourist visa. [2] Obama knew Saddiqi when he visited Chandoo and Hamid at Occidental. Siddiqi claims Obama stopped using drugs when he arrived at Columbia. Siddiqi is a recovering drug addict and now lives in Seattle working for a community theater.

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* Cassandra Butts a friend from law school who now works at the Center for American Progress. Of Obama she said, "People see in him what they want to see."

* Michael Froman a friend from law school and now an executive at Citigroup.

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