Posted on 12/06/2014 8:34:48 AM PST by Patriot777
NORFOLK, Va. – A Navy civilian engineer has been indicted on charges he tried to steal schematics of an aircraft carrier under construction and have them sent to Egypt. Federal prosecutors said Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, 35, of Yorktown, Virginia, was arrested Friday on two counts of attempted exportation of defense articles and technical data. Prosecutors said Awwad tried to steal technical data in the designs of the USS Gerald R. Ford in late October. Awwad provided computer drawings downloaded from the Navy to an undercover FBI agent posing as an Egyptian intelligence officer. The Ford is the lead ship in a new class of carriers. It is scheduled for delivery to the Navy in 2016. According to an FBI affidavit, Awwad began working for Navy last February in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard's nuclear engineering and planning department. An undercover agent speaking in Arabic contacted Awwad in September and the pair met the next day at a park in Hampton. At the meeting, Awwad asserted that was his intention to use his position of trust with the Navy to obtain military technology for use by the Egyptian government. The pair also met in October at a hotel where Awwad described a plan to circumvent Navy computer security by installing software enabling him to copy documents without tripping a security alert, the affidavit said. The undercover agent was given aircraft carrier drawings marked with warnings that foreign distribution could result in criminal prosecution. Awwad indicated he understood the computer drawings would be used in Egypt. He agreed to provide the agent with passport photos to produce a fake Egyptian passport so Awwad could travel without alerting U.S. government officials.
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ISIS building an aircraft carrier is one if my biggest fears. Next they will need a jet, and after enough pilots slam into the deck it will be training manuals.
This guy is basically a foreign national, born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Egypt, he applied for citizenship in 2007 and already has a Top Secret Security Clearance and a Federal job at a Navy Shipyard?
The people in charge have rocks in their heads, there must be hundreds of these types that have infiltrated the USA since the marxist son of a whore lied his way into the WH.
Put him in front of a firing squad and send him on to mutthomed, the same for all like him.
Wonder how many native born candidates were passed over for this sellout?
This “administration” has some great policies. Hire a moozlum and give him a security clearance. What could possibly go wrong?
Right, we don’t have any American engineers?
This SOB was probably rushed right in to fill some stupid “Diversity” requirement.
Of course the people that hired him and granted his security clearance don’t have to worry about any repercussions, because under this gang nobody is ever held accountable.
They arrested a guy named Mostafa Ahmed Awwad?
Why, that’s just plain profiling!
oh boy - just another example of “workplace mis-appropriation” and I ‘m sure he didn’t mean to “look” like he was attempting to steal plans for the next generation of aircraft carriers... (sarc/ with a cherry on top)
I sincerely hope this is sarcasm. On my list of fears, ISIS building an aircraft carrier is right up there with Hillary Clinton showing up in my bedroom in a G-string. Horrifying, but highly unlikely.
A little kid visiting just read the headline on FR and said, ‘Gee, I wonder if the traitor had a muslim name. “ Only our political leaders and the bureaucrats are too stupid to know we are slitting our own throats..
No kidding.
But I’m sure China or Russia would have gladly made a considerable payment towards the Egyptian national budget.
On the other hand, if security is this loosey-goosey, they probably already have the information anyhow.
Out of the mouths of babes.
Schematics are not just for building things. They are also for determining weaknesses/vulnerabilities.
That is because out president was put in place to destroy the USA.
Thank God liberal elites weren't doing their "PC" crap during WWII - or we'd all be speaking German.
Thank God liberal elites weren't doing their "PC" crap during WWII - or we'd all be speaking German.
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