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Navy engineer tried to steal schematics of aircraft carrier, feds say
Associated Press, Fox News.com ^ | December 05, 2014 | unknown

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: engineer; mostafaahmedawwad; navy; newportnews; schematics; steal; virginia; yorkcounty
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To: bigdaddy45

“Hillary Clinton showing up in my bedroom in a G-string. Horrifying, but highly unlikely.”

Undergoing waterboarding at Guantanamo would be relaxing vacation compared to that.


21 posted on 12/06/2014 9:18:47 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Pants up; don't loot)
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To: Rome2000

....since the marxist son of a marxist whore and a marxist father and a marxist tutor lied his way into the WH..............there, fixed it.............


22 posted on 12/06/2014 9:21:45 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Patriot777

“Mostafa Ahmed Awwad”
What gave them the first clue?
That should have been a dead giveaway.


23 posted on 12/06/2014 9:25:56 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: GOPJ
or Japanese.
24 posted on 12/06/2014 9:33:44 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Patriot777

“Our Diversity Is Our Strength.” /s/


25 posted on 12/06/2014 9:37:15 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: GOPJ
"Thank God liberal elites weren't doing their "PC" crap during WWII - or we'd all be speaking German."

Read The Man in The High Castle by Phillip K. Dick for a view of America if the Axis Powers had won World War II.

26 posted on 12/06/2014 9:44:03 AM PST by Truth29
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To: bigdaddy45
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.

egad...there are worse things than isis building an aircraft carrier!!!!

27 posted on 12/06/2014 10:26:29 AM PST by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Telling enemy where to hit the carrier to destroy it


28 posted on 12/06/2014 11:02:30 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: bigdaddy45

People have been known to bungee jump with Hillary’s g-string.


29 posted on 12/06/2014 11:26:33 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: bigdaddy45

People have been known to bungee jump with Hillary’s g-string.


30 posted on 12/06/2014 11:26:34 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: molson209

If all they have left to do to destroy a carrier is get schematics we might as well bring them home.
F


31 posted on 12/06/2014 11:29:39 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: terycarl

Hillary in a G-string!!!
That would give me a nightmare!

I wonder how many times she spread her legs for the ISIS and the fellow ISlAMICS? Or any Muslims?

I shudder to think!


32 posted on 12/06/2014 11:36:35 AM PST by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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To: Rome2000
Right, we don’t have any American engineers?

There are more US citizens with STEM degrees than all the STEM jobs that have been created in the US since Y2K.

Half of US citizens with STEM degrees are unemployed or underemployed, working outside their field of study.

The margin for recruiters is greater when they place a non-citizen.

33 posted on 12/06/2014 11:44:52 AM PST by meadsjn
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To: Patriot777

The kinds of employees preferred by contractors these days. The chickens are coming home to roost.


34 posted on 12/06/2014 12:51:09 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: bigdaddy45

Yeah, ISIS is probably not going to be building an aircraft carrier any time soon. However, I shudder to think what weaknesses could be gleaned from having the plans in hand, and not necessarily by ISIS, but their friends. I’m sure no money will be changing hands. /s


35 posted on 12/06/2014 3:45:32 PM PST by Wingy
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To: Patriot777

Throw this turd into a gator infested pond.


36 posted on 12/06/2014 3:48:08 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Patriot777

gee a muslim male pulling this sh1t again.

shocker.


37 posted on 12/06/2014 5:31:47 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Patriot777; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; ...

Active Duty ping.


38 posted on 12/06/2014 5:32:31 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: Patriot777
Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, 35

Good thing Obama has the FBI and DHS going after the real terrorists: Christians, veterans, Constitutionalists, and law abiding gun owners.

DHS Says Gun Owners Are Terrorists

Homeland Security Classifies Returning US Veterans as Potential Terrorist Threat


39 posted on 12/06/2014 5:38:47 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Patriot777

if you have the schematics for an aircraft carrier, you know exactly where the drain plug is located....and we all know what happens when you pull that!!!!


40 posted on 12/07/2014 7:55:39 PM PST by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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