Iran Offers to Exchange American Hikers for Iranian Bird Watcher, Sleepwalker

Iranian diplomat Vahid Bagheri announced his country's willingness Saturday to grant the unconditional release of both of the remaining U.S. hikers being held as spies in exchange for two Iranians arrested for identical charges in the United States.

According to Bagheri, Ahmad Reza Karimi, 36, was arrested while bird watching outside March Air Force Base in California last March, and contend that Majtaba Habibi, 68, suffers from Alzheimer's disease and was sleepwalking when he was apprehended wandering a wooded area outside of Budapest in the middle of the night of August 6th.

The FBI claims Habibi had procured highly classified documents pertaining to a long range missile guidance system from an American agent by responding to a coded phrase: "We should really do this more often" with the specifically accurate reply, "What are you talking about?".

Since being taken into custody six weeks ago, Habibi has insisted that he is a tea kettle and speaks only in shrill whines – a ploy designed to bolster his claim of being harmlessly demented, US officials contend.

"Majtaba Habibi is not a tea kettle, Abraham Lincoln, or a chicken. We're not falling for that one again," remarked FBI director Robert Mueller.

Meanwhile, Sarah Shourd, the American hiker who was released by Iran on Tuesday, says she wishes for the safe return of her colleagues, and is looking forward to an upcoming trip to Africa, where she plans to hike across Somalia.