It described the operators as incompetent and said officials mistook the calls "for a hoax or a joke".
After 14-year-old Texan boy Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school that officials mistook for a bomb, musicians rallied to support him.
Two great over-the-board players who also played correspondence chess, Wilhelm Steinitz, the first world champion, and Joseph Blackburne, were arrested as spies at different times in the 19th century because officials mistook their chess moves for encoded messages.
Thinking themselves immune from the "British blight", many EU countries have lost a valuable chance to protect themselves by copying measures taken by their stricken neighbour and by avoiding British ministers' and officials' mistakes.
1.15pm: "There was a wonderful documentary made by Canal + in France during the 2008 Euro finals, which concentrated entirely (for once) on the referees during these high stress games," writes Chris B. "On the pitch, in the dressing rooms before and after the match, the debriefings with Uefa officials, mistakes and good calls all studied in incredibly interesting fashion.
In the January raid, which took place in Hazar Qadam, 70 miles northeast of the raid on Sunday, military officials mistook the nighttime activities of smugglers and other Afghans loyal to the interim government in Kabul for terrorists planning attacks on American forces.
At first, it was a case of mistaken identity: When the first live specimens ever seen of a rare whale species turned up on a New Zealand beach in 2010, local officials mistook them for a more common type of whale.
Government officials mistook their vehicles for those of al Qaeda militants.
Once, she was denied a loan because officials mistook her for someone on a European terror watch list, he said.
Then, Russian military officials mistook a Norwegian weather rocket for a US submarine-launched ballistic missile with 8 nuclear warheads.
