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2015-06-17 Home Front: WoT

U.S. Naval Engineer Pleads Guilty to Spying Bid

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-06-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Norfolk, Virginia shipyard where the highly sophisticated sub is being built
Not to quibble with AnNahar, but the shipyard is across the James River, in Newport News. And the Gerald Ford is an aircraft carrier, not a submarine. If Awwad's 'facts' weren't any better than that he wasn't much of a spy.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-06-17 01:51|| 2015-06-17 01:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Not to quibble with AnNahar, but the shipyard is across the James River, in Newport News. And the Gerald Ford is an aircraft carrier, not a submarine.

And Awwad was a custodial engineer?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-06-17 02:06|| 2015-06-17 02:06|| Front Page Top

#3 what would the Egyptians do with such information?
They would broker or propagandize it of course, but this was a FBI poser.

A U.S. Navy engineer pleaded guilty
Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, 36, a civilian who worked at the Norfolk, Virginia shipyard
a prison sentence of eight to 11 years
Isn't that more akin to 'armed robbery' than TREASON?

Posted by Skidmark 2015-06-17 04:16|| 2015-06-17 04:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Good lord, what would the Egyptians do with such information?

The question is how much would the Russians/Chinese/et al pay/trade for it? In money or kind.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-06-17 08:50|| 2015-06-17 08:50|| Front Page Top

#5 No really it is a submersible aircraft carrier.

Then what are the sails for?

Dammit man, can't get to the moon without sails.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-06-17 11:44|| 2015-06-17 11:44|| Front Page Top

#6 If they'd been building that ship in California the Chinese might have gotten to Mostafa before the FBI.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-06-17 12:59|| 2015-06-17 12:59|| Front Page Top

#7 "No really it is a submersible aircraft carrier."
I'm sure the Egyptian version would be.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-06-17 14:25|| 2015-06-17 14:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Waiting for Cair to cry foul, that he was targeted because of his name.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-06-17 14:25|| 2015-06-17 14:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Put him in the cell next to Jonathan Pollard. I'm sure the resulting banter will be interesting.

Posted by Pappy 2015-06-17 16:42|| 2015-06-17 16:42|| Front Page Top

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