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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Stick him in John Walker’s old cell.
Forever.
Who needs plans? An aircraft carrier is a huge floating metal box housing a nuclear reactor supplying 1920’s technology steam propulsion plant with a large flat roof where planes can take off and land.
Nay... The Netherlands...in about twenty years...
I bet Egypt really needed those plans. Ultimate destination was probably China, or Russia.
Everyone knows we are not allowed to "Profile" people...right?
Just because his name is SATAN...well... that doesn't mean he would us any harm.../s
“I would suggest taking out a carrier would initiate a retaliatory response”
Maybe post 1/20/17, but these days, even that is somewhat doubtful. We would probably issue an apology for having one of our carriers in the way of what was obviously a missile test.
Yepper - citizens in good standing get probed in all orifices while those in the high-risk categories get free passes.
Am I reading this right....this idiot was willing to sell us out for $3,000......that’s less than a months pay and now he’s going away for 20 years.
China and Russia are building new nuclear weapons. We're not. We don't even know for certain if our nukes would still work in the event we had to deploy them. We're sitting on the same nuclear inventory that has languished in armories since they were built decades ago while China and Russia are rolling new and improved tactical and strategic nuclear weapons out of their factories while we turn a blind eye to this and pretend that they're not.
China and Russia are building nuclear torpedos, nuclear artillary shells, nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles that would blow a carrier into dust. When was the last time we even tested a nuke?
So, yes, China may very well be ready to go to war.
Big wooop. “The Great ObamaNation” just got through hand deliverering all the information on this ship to his masters the ChiComs.
...Pepto works
It was a setup.
What a foolish government we have. We live in a world of insanity.
The 3K was just for the first installment ... perhaps, he hoped to carry on for a long time and become rich beyond his wildest dreams then retire as a hero in Egypt.
Good thing Holder says we can no longer profile in cases of national security.
Egyptian.
Hmmmm. Egypt. Isn’t that where Mohammad Atta haled from?
I don’t guess I need to state the obvious here.....
(WTF?!?!)
CELEBRATE DIVERSITY!!!!
/treason
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