Betting Market .com’s Niall O’Connor:
Bodog founder hunted down in Tora Bora.
Only three days after the arrest of Betonsport’s Gary Kaplan [BetOnSports founder Gary Kaplan, fugitive — BUSTED], news is breaking that the Department of Justice have finally got their hands on their number one target, Calvin Ayre of Bodog. The arrest allegedly occured at 3am GMT in eastern Afghanistan.
As yet unconfirmed reports, suggest that Ayre had gone to Afghanistan to check out the possibility of relocating his company Bodog to Tora Bora, an area located in the White Mountains in eastern Afghanistan, southeast of Kabul and southwest of Jalalabad, near the Pakistan border.
In 2001 Tora Bora was used by al-Qaeda and was suspected of being the headquarters of the world’s other most wanted man Osama bin Laden. It was variously described as a multi-storeyed cave complex harnessing hydroelectric power from mountain streams, or a lower-rise dwelling with hotel-like corridors capable of sheltering more than 1,000 telephonists. It was also said to contain a large cache of ammunition, such as FIM-92 Stinger missiles left over from the earlier Afghanistan War.A friend of Ayre’s who did not wish to named told bettingmarket.com:
Calvin has never been the same after he failed to appear in the Forbes’ 2007 List Of World Billionaires. He wanted to put himself back into the spotlight and what better way to do it, than to move Bodog to Tora Bora, lock, stock and barrel. He figured out that as the US had not been able to get Bin Laden when he was holed up there, there was little chance of them finding him. Moreover, the location would have allowed him to extend the reach of his charitable foundation into neighbouring Pakistan.
Unfortunately for Ayre, a contingent of US marines were still searching the Tora Bora complex for Bin Laden, in the belief that he might still be holed up in one of the many secret caves.
Some reports suggest that one of the marines just happened to have a copy of the 2006 Billionaires Issue of Forbes magazine, with Ayre on the cover. Other reliable sources, such as Gambling 912, suggest that the estate agent was in the pay of the Department of Justice. Whatever the truth, April 1 2007, will be a day that Calvin Ayre and the online gambling industry will long remember.
Additional Reporting for this article was provided by our Afghanistan correspondent Lirpa Loof; with pictures provided by the Wan King picture agency.
FREEZE.
Calvin Ayre busted in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, by the Marines (or Navy SEALs)??
It’s a hoax. You got me, Niall O’Connor!! 
—
Addendum: Inkling co-founder Nate Kontny seems to have output an April’s Fool joke, but you need to be an IT geek to got it.
Other Jokes: Sacha Baron Cohen (aka “Borat” and “Ali G”) to teach innovation course at Harvard + Google Really Takes April 1 Seriously. + Yahoo Underground: Fringe News Featured
—
Addendum #2: Niall O’Connor explains…
There were two clues, with regard to the fact that it was April Fools Day, or, as the French say, poisson d’avril.
“Additional Reporting for this article was provided by our Afghanistan correspondent Lirpa Loof; with pictures provided by the Wan King picture agency.”- Lirpa Loof = April Fool backwards.
- Wan King = wanking (crude, I know) – a name employed in the City when one is spinning a piece of bullshit.
