i prayed this was NOT real, but it sure appears to be. one doesn't know what to do, scream, cry or just break down laughing so hard you pee your pants
(by the way, if the fbi is reading this, i fixed my popi and myself some falafel for lunch last saturday. i can certainly swear to you i am NOT an iranian OR a terrorist. i can certainly swear to you i do NOT believe my father is a terrorist - he's 80 and doesn't know how to use an atm, a computer, the vcr or cable on demand. he drives about 2 miles an hour so even if he WAS a terrorist, which he ISN'T, you'd have NO PROBLEMS catching him. he doesn't fly AT ALL. he never has. he was in the navy but he only sailed on ships. to the best of my knowledge he never caused any problems in the navy. oh, he is of eye-talian descent too. of that i AM sure. oh, one of his shipmates in the navy was that GREAT AMERICAN actor lee van cleef. now if that ain't patriotic, i don't know what is!!!)
FBI Hoped to Follow Falafel Trail to Iranian Terrorists Here
By Jeff Stein, CQ National Security Editor
Like Hansel and Gretel hoping to follow their bread crumbs out of the forest, the FBI sifted through customer data collected by San Francisco-area grocery stores in 2005 and 2006, hoping that sales records of Middle Eastern food would lead to Iranian terrorists.
The idea was that a spike in, say, falafel sales, combined with other data, would lead to Iranian secret agents in the south San Francisco-San Jose area.
The brainchild of top FBI counterterrorism officials Phil Mudd and Willie T. Hulon, according to well-informed sources, the project didn’t last long. It was torpedoed by the head of the FBI’s criminal investigations division, Michael A. Mason, who argued that putting somebody on a terrorist list for what they ate was ridiculous — and possibly illegal.
A check of federal court records in California did not reveal any prosecutions developed from falafel trails. ........
(hat tip to boing boing for pointing me to the story)
(suggested apparel for next falafel stand trip)
(by the way, if the fbi is reading this, i fixed my popi and myself some falafel for lunch last saturday. i can certainly swear to you i am NOT an iranian OR a terrorist. i can certainly swear to you i do NOT believe my father is a terrorist - he's 80 and doesn't know how to use an atm, a computer, the vcr or cable on demand. he drives about 2 miles an hour so even if he WAS a terrorist, which he ISN'T, you'd have NO PROBLEMS catching him. he doesn't fly AT ALL. he never has. he was in the navy but he only sailed on ships. to the best of my knowledge he never caused any problems in the navy. oh, he is of eye-talian descent too. of that i AM sure. oh, one of his shipmates in the navy was that GREAT AMERICAN actor lee van cleef. now if that ain't patriotic, i don't know what is!!!)
FBI Hoped to Follow Falafel Trail to Iranian Terrorists Here
By Jeff Stein, CQ National Security Editor
Like Hansel and Gretel hoping to follow their bread crumbs out of the forest, the FBI sifted through customer data collected by San Francisco-area grocery stores in 2005 and 2006, hoping that sales records of Middle Eastern food would lead to Iranian terrorists.
The idea was that a spike in, say, falafel sales, combined with other data, would lead to Iranian secret agents in the south San Francisco-San Jose area.
The brainchild of top FBI counterterrorism officials Phil Mudd and Willie T. Hulon, according to well-informed sources, the project didn’t last long. It was torpedoed by the head of the FBI’s criminal investigations division, Michael A. Mason, who argued that putting somebody on a terrorist list for what they ate was ridiculous — and possibly illegal.
A check of federal court records in California did not reveal any prosecutions developed from falafel trails. ........
(hat tip to boing boing for pointing me to the story)
(suggested apparel for next falafel stand trip)
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