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Throb · Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:02 pm HIPPO'S, LATEST THREAT TO USA SECURITY

America was on maximum alert today as the FBI received 'credible' intelligence information suggesting Al-Qaeda are planning to trample thousands of Americans to death under rampaging hippos. One Federal spokesman said: 'A mother hippopotomus will charge at anything that comes between it and it's calf.

It could be the spokesman was referring to last night's discovery of a baby hippo in a White House cupboard.

Security officers at first assumed the animal simply belonged to the Attorney General, but they're now linking it to a possible build up of four million mother hippos that may have been spotted by satelite cameras grazing north of the Canadian border.

'Everything is being done to prevent the herd of mothers hearing about the calf', said the Pentagon ' but we urge people to be on the look out for other baby hippos'.

Seven hippos are rumoured to have walked into a Chicago department store yesterday while an eighth was mysteriously presented as a gift to the actor Ben Afflick.