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Muslim Navy Employee Sold Info on How to Sink Aircraft Carrier
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On December 7, 2014 @ 11:44 am In The Point | 33 Comments
Just workplace espionage. No reason to worry about our national security.
A naturalized American citizen working for the Navy was arrested Friday for attempting to sell technical information about the nuclear aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford to an agent of the Egyptian government.
The agent, however, was a federal undercover agent working for the FBI.
During that meeting, Awwad suggested they employ “an elaborate cyber security system which included several one-time use electronic mail boxes with phantom names,” the affidavit said. He also described a detailed plan to circumvent Navy computer security by installing a “bug” on his restricted computer that would allow him to copy documents without drawing attention.
According to the affidavit, Awwad provided the undercover agent four computer-aided design drawings of the Ford and told him where to strike the vessel with a missile to sink it.
According to a redacted affidavit from federal agent James Blitzer, Awwad was born in 1979 in Saudi Arabia. He married a US citizen in May 2007 in Cairo, Egypt, and later became a US citizen.
At the time of his indictment, Awwad, of Yorktown, Virginia, was working as a civilian engineer in the nuclear engineering and planning department of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, where he had been hired in February. He had been given a clearance of Secret.
During their first meeting in a park in Hampton, Va., Awwad explained to “Yousef” that he intended to use his position to obtain military technology for use by the Egyptian government, including but not limited to, the designs of the USS Gerald Ford nuclear aircraft carrier.
It might be time to stop providing classified ratings to just about everyone who walks off the street. Members of enemy ideologies should be doubly scrutinized. Saudi Arabia is an enemy country. It’s the source of most of our terrorist problems.
We’re taking the enemy deep within our own system.
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