top secret

Electronic intercept... Dateline December 2007... CIA protocol blue.
Station Chief, Langley, confirms tape appears genuine.
Conclusion: Voices are President Muammar Gadaffy of Libya and President Ahmed Ahmadinejad of Iran.
Eyes Only. Transcripts to President Bush, Prime Minister Brown, and James Healy.

Transcript.

Gadaffy: Are you serious? They fired him three weeks before Christmas?

Ahmadinejad: Would I kid about a serious thing like that?

Gadaffy: What sort of people are these? Have they no respect for the holy season? Even Osama goes on hiatus for Christmas.

(Sound of laughter. Apparently Ahmadinejad.)

Ahmadinejad: Next thing they'll be naming teddy bears Jesus.

Gadaffy: No seriously. What sort of people are they?

Ahmadinejad: Muammar old chum, these are the scum we call scum.