So I was reading through todays edition of the Globe and Mail (one of Canada’s national newspapers) and came across one of the most ridiculous things I’ve read in a while.
According to Russell Crowe, the terrorist group Al-Qaeda had a plan to kidnap him. Now, if you’re like me, you’re probably asking yourself right now: “Why the hell would they want to kidnap Crowe?!?” Well, here’s what was reported:
Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terror network wanted to kidnap Russell Crowe as part of a “cultural destabilization plot,” the Oscar-winning actor is quoted as saying in an Australian magazine.
In an interview published in the March edition of Australia’s GQ Magazine, Crowe said FBI agents told him of the threat in 2001, in the months before he won a best actor Oscar for his role as Maximus in Gladiator.
“That was the first [time] I’d ever heard the phrase al-Qaeda,” Crowe said. “It was about — and here’s another little touch of irony — taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as sort of a cultural destabilization plot,” he added.
Look, I’m a BIG fan of Crowe when it comes to him as an artist… but there has been so much crap coming out of this guy’s mouth lately that I just don’t know what to think. I’m sorry… but kidnaping Crowe isn’t going to destabilize the US or Canada one single bit.
Maybe Al-Qaeda is just getting bored of being held up in their hiding caves and they thought Crowe would bring his band with him to jam out some tunes that they could all rock to?
