Posted on 12/06/2014 5:04:03 AM PST by PIF
A Navy engineer was arrested and charged Friday with attempting to steal plans for the Navy's most advanced aircraft carrier, now under construction at Newport News Shipbuilding.
Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, 35, a York County, Va., resident who worked at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Virginia, was indicted on two counts of attempted exportation of defense articles and technical data, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente. If convicted, he faces a maximum of 20 years in prison on each count.
Awwad intended to send the schematics to Egypt, authorities said.
Court documents describe a saga that included an FBI undercover agent posing as an Egyptian intelligence officer, a clandestine meeting in Sandy Bottom Nature Park in Hampton, a prearranged "dead drop" along a secluded hiking trail and Awwad's alleged intention to wear a pinhole camera to photograph classified material.
During one meeting with the undercover agent, he "discussed where to strike the vessel with a missile in order to sink it," an affidavit states.
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Our government is riddled with them.
No doubt the wun will look to pardon his fellow muslim traveler if and when he sees jail time.
Muslim pardons Muslim....what’s so hard to figure about that?
Mostafa. Isn’t that an Irish name?
Here’s a rule of thumb. Don’t hire people named ACH-MED.
That is all
Obama must be pissed his muslim friend was caught.
Paging Madalyn Albright!
I have no doubt Red China was the eventual destination for this data.
Mostafa!! Who would ever have thought??
...but Al “Race Baiter” Sharpton owes $4.5 million in state and federal tax liens against his for-profit businesses... and nothing is done to him...
Why are we allowing Muslims access to our secrets? O wait...never mind...we got one on the White Hut.
Can't do a background check - that would be profiling.
Is that Amish?
I thought it was Sandy Berger who pilfered documents from the Library of Congress?
And please, don’t ever mention Madeline Albright again before I’ve had my breakfast. The vision of her just makes me lose my appetite. Yuk!
Perhaps, but China (and Russia) already have anti-ship missiles that will blow a carrier into pieces in one strike and which we have no defense against.
Reporters love to misuse the term schematics
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