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aviinterra -> Follow Falafel Trail (11/8/2007 8:20:27 AM)
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I saw the link to this article on some other forum and burst out laughing, spilling my tea all over the desk.
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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.
So, how many of you posters out there have those nice keychain discount cards to the market? :)
http://cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=hsnews-000002620892
edited for crappy spelling
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