YID With LID blows the lid off an outrageous State Department program that explicitly excluded Israeli Jews from a business training program for Middle East residents.

And when the Foggy Bottom drone-in-charge tried to sanitize the Word document advertising the program, he/she forgot to turn off the “Track Changes” feature. Oops.

[Virus-infected document removed. See below.]

(Hat tip: Omri Ceren.)

UPDATE at 9/27/07 8:44:18 pm:

And to make it even worse, the document from the State Department’s web site apparently contains a virus called the “tibs dialer.” It’s now removed for that reason.

Good work, State Department.

If you downloaded and opened the document, make sure to run a virus/adware checker as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I wasn’t expecting a State Department document to contain a virus.