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February 15, 2007

Arabic Translator Who Faked Identity Pleads Guilty To Having Secret Data

He probably found this fairly easy to accomplish because of the government's eagerness to demonstrate its political correctness by hiring as many Muslims as possible, without -- obviously -- doing sufficient background checks. "Translator Who Faked Identity Pleads Guilty To Having Secret Data," by Josh White in the Washington Post, with thanks to Sr. Soph:

An Arabic translator who used an assumed identity to get work as a contractor for the U.S. Army in Iraq pleaded guilty yesterday to federal charges of possessing classified national defense documents, including sensitive material about the insurgency that he took from an 82nd Airborne Division intelligence group in 2004.

The translator obtained U.S. citizenship under a false identity before securing a job in August 2003 with Titan Corp., which supplied translators to the U.S. military to aid in fighting the war in Iraq. The man then used his false identity to get secret and top-secret clearances -- access to extremely sensitive material that is supposed to be given only after thorough background checks -- Justice Department officials said.

Authorities said yesterday in a news release that they do not even know the translator's real name and that they refer to him in court documents under several of his aliases, including "Abu Hakim" and "Abdulhakeem Nour."

The man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in New York to having several documents in his Brooklyn apartment after two deployments to Iraq. He earlier pleaded guilty to charges of using a false identity to obtain U.S. citizenship and to gain access to classified military material.

Posted by Robert at February 15, 2007 11:39 AM
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How many more are out there? How many are in the FBI, CIA, DIA - congressional staffers???? Congressmen?

Our clueless government is determined to give this country away.

Posted by: infidel! [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 11:45 AM

Like a John Carpenter horror flick ...

They Live (1988) … specially designed sunglasses allow the user to see the world as it really is: … government officials and law enforcement agents are aliens … the homeless and the working class are humans … (hypnotized to) … avoid creative thinking and to adopt a very conformist attitude. Ahead of its time.

Posted by: LoneRanger [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 12:02 PM

A few days ago in the European Stars & Stripes they profiled a muslim female who is an E-4 in the Army and an Arabic translator. One of her quotes was something along the lines of "There are Christian terrorists, Jewish terrorists..." She also said she helps "educate" the soldiers about islam. We do it to ourselves folks. I'm an 18 year military vet. It would probably scare some of you how ignorant the majority of my fellow vets are regarding islam. Most of them have never even read one flipping book about it. A lot of them buy into all the MSM pro-islam propaganda. Yet they are charged with winning this war. God help us.

Posted by: BigDaddyKool [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 12:07 PM

It sure seems like our Gov. is doing all it can to destroy this country as fast as they can. It looks like a concerted effort on their part, and if it is not then why are these situations happening over and over. We need to clean house from the top down, only problem is most people in this country don't have a clue so it isn't going to happen. How depressing

Posted by: havekoranwilltravel [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 12:08 PM

Why let these people in and then let the court system weed them out later after the damage is done? It doesn't make sense.

Posted by: havekoranwilltravel [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 12:11 PM

Why was he not taken out and shot?

Posted by: AMartinez [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 12:11 PM

BBC World had a report last night that the UN has pressured the United States to take in more Iraqi's "who have assisted the US".
In translation, the featured Iraqi whiner was a translator and he and a host of other Iraqi's will be in America shortly just like the above mentioned traitor.

Posted by: Lame Cherry [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 12:13 PM

Here's the refugee story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6362289.stm

Posted by: LoneRanger [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 12:21 PM

This seems to me more government pusillanimous nonsense. I mean he obtained US citizenship under false identity – hence his citizenship can be or is annulled – so he’s simply a wartime enemy spy. So why is he tried in federal court with lawyers at taxpayers expense? Why not simply and legitimately a military hearing/trial, some waterboarding for info followed by execution? Why can’t our military & wimpy government act like we are at war instead of a sensitively perused police action with ACLU monitoring?

I agree with Robert Spencer and think we need a president like Tom Tancredo.

Posted by: FM [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 12:24 PM

Our willful ignorance is the single greatest threat to free world security, but sometimes I have to confess I think we're just plain stupid too.

Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 12:33 PM

Our willful ignorance is the single greatest threat to free world security, but sometimes I have to confess I think we're just plain stupid too.

Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 12:33 PM

Spy is the word for this guy. Spies in wartime are summarily shot, not put on trial. How much damage was done to our military operations by this person? We don't know his real name, but it would seem he's a Shiite, based on what he took.
Doea anyone know?

From the Post article:

According to court papers, the translator illegally downloaded classified documents that "detail the 82nd Airborne's mission in Iraq in regard to insurgent activity, such as coordinates of insurgent locations upon which the U.S. Army was preparing to fire in January 2004," as well as plans for protecting Sunnis on their pilgrimage to Mecca that same month. Government lawyers also said that he photographed a classified battle map at a base near Najaf.

Posted by: PMK [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 12:35 PM

A muslim terrorist deeply embedded in sensitive military areas.. I'm shocked.

Congratulations fbi/cia/dia/82AB/etc. Among all the other damage, you've now communicated to the whole world a U.S. top secret clearance isn't worth shit.

Again, congratulations.


P.S.
How's that 'war' in iraq going again?

Posted by: Arm A. Geddon [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 12:35 PM

This is insane!!!!

I remember when I was in the US Marines a guy from Northern Ireland was in our platoon. He was denied clearance to go to a POW survival school and some other training because he was not a US citizen.

But then again, he was not in any PC category so I guess it was okay for "higher ups" to assume he may have had some sort of affliation with the IRA thus not letting him go. It was okay in that circumstance to deny him access because of his country of origin.... again, I guess it was okay since he wasn't in a PC category....

Posted by: adobe [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 12:43 PM

Hang em High!!

Posted by: exsgtbrown [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 1:33 PM

Ahh don't you love them? the most loyal traitors. The country which gave you freedom food and opportunity is less worth than the rotton ideology of the pedophile?

Posted by: Birbhadra [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 1:43 PM

"The translator obtained U.S. citizenship under a false identity before securing a job in August 2003 with Titan Corp., which supplied translators to the U.S. military to aid in fighting the war in Iraq. The man then used his false identity to get secret and top-secret clearances -- access to extremely sensitive material that is supposed to be given only after thorough background checks -- Justice Department officials said."
-- from the article above

1.

"Obtained U. S. citizenshp under a false identity...."

2.

"before securing a job in August 2003 with Titan Corp., which supplied translators to the U.S. miiltary to aid in fighting the war in Iraq."

3.

"The man then used his false identity to get secret and top-secret clearances -- access to extremely sensitive material that is supposed to be given only after thorough background checks."

Think not of one group of Keystone Kops, Keystone Kops supremely self-assured and completely unware of their own naivety, ignorance, and stupidity (where were the Arabic-speaking Maronites and Copts and Jews to interview this man backwards and forwards and figure out what he was all about? Still not hireable? Still kept in purdah, precisely because they are not Muslims and so are "not to be trusted" when it is precisely Muslims who are not to be trusted?), but of several overlapping or possibly distinct group of Keystone Kops.

Think of those Keystone Kops at the I.N.S., giving this man citizenship. Think of the Keystone Kops at the Titan Corporation, hiring people to work in Iraq. Think of the Keystone Kops in whatever office vets people for "secret and top-secret clearances."

Now rub your eyes in disbelief.

No, actually it's worse, it's much worse.

I meant to write:

Now rub your eyes in belief.

Yes, that is the way those whose duty it is to protect us are now operating. You are not wrong to despise them and to worry. They really are at that level. Not all, but most.


Posted by: Hugh [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 1:45 PM

Should we really be surprised at ANY of this?

Look at the (almost imperceptible) slap on the wrist given to Sandy Berger. Maybe this guy with many names can use Berger's case as a precedent at sentencing and also walk away without serving a day in prison.

Posted by: PMK [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 2:14 PM

Our leaders and protectors, all products of our educational system (rather non-educational system).

Watered-down history for the masses with a soft, sensitive side that portrays evil on the same level as good -- because evil is just misunderstood afterall.

I'm sick of it!

Posted by: LoneRanger [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 2:16 PM

It is apparent that this incident represents just the tip of the iceburg. Every Muslim hired into our government and security services is subject to "sudden jihad syndrome," and in any situation, has primary loyalty to the umma--in other words, he is a mole.

In the past, the security questionnaires for applicants typically posed questions such as "have you now or ever been a member of the Communist Party?," and "are you now or have you ever been a member of an organization that advocates the violent overthrow of the government of the United States?"

The question today should be "have you now or ever been a member of a 7th century death cult bent on subjugating all of humanity?"


Posted by: Stendec [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 2:25 PM

That's iceberg. The iceburg is Paris.

Posted by: Stendec [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 2:27 PM

Top Secret clearance without a polygraph test?

Posted by: fides [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 2:36 PM

The Night of the Living Dead.

Posted by: Hugh [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 3:54 PM

Authorities said yesterday in a news release that they do not even know the translator's real name and that they refer to him in court documents under several of his aliases, including "Abu Hakim" and "Abdulhakeem Nour."

Now why do we not know who he really is? After all the bs, investigations, trial, etc, we still don't have a clue as to his identity. What is wrong with this picture?

Posted by: Caratacus [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 3:58 PM

I know that from first hand experience that Titan Corporation, the biggest supplier of Arabic linguists, a division of L-3 Communication, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, is the worst when it comes to security. The names of most recruiters, many mangers and staff are telling (Ahmed, Muhammed, Ali, etc.). The recruiters and language examiners were a bunch of zealots who do not even bother to hide their anti-Kafir hostility. Titan’s Muslim employees consist of either ignorant fanatical hillbillies or a few very intelligent and educated ones who are quite sinister.

I personally witnessed an incident of Muslim employees of Titan beating an American from an Assyrian descent for daring to ask for help for an injured old Assyrian man that was ignored by the Beshmerga. I saw Titan Muslim employees, lie, cheat and steal, compromise security, badmouth America, intimidate non-Muslim employees and worst of all collect and take away classified materiel. I suspect that several (naturalized, of course) Sudanese employees of Titan and a Moroccan employee of MacLean did a lot of damage to security in Baghdad.

I say that those running the counter-intel ops in Baghdad are a bunch of fools--- I never saw such lax security. If I was running the effort, I would not leave a single Muslim guy in the most sensitive buildings. I take the assignment of linguists entirely out of the hand of the contractors and put in the hands of those who can tell the differannce between a Fadi George and a Fadi Ahmed. Enough putting highly educated Americans from Middle Eastern Christian descent in worst and dirtiest jobs or leaving them standing with guards at the gate sorting the claims of goat herders who had a goat run-over by a Humve while assigning Muslim cabbies and waiters to the most sensitive, safest and cushiest jobs with the intel folks.

The insurgency intelligence (Iranian, Syrian and ex Sadam’s Mukhabrat) services are getting excellent information about high value convoys, the floor plan of dining facilities and residential areas, raids before they take place, the identity of informants as well as excellent technical information about our armaments, communications, capabilities, and tactics. Every time I saw a Muslim linguist speaking in hushed tones to the Iraqi workers on base, taking or passing stuff, leaving the base unescorted (mind you in late 2003), bringing questionable characters on base, I wondered what was going on.

Posted by: have_mercy [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 3:58 PM

But Muslims are our greatest allies in the War on Terror--everybody says so.


Posted by: gravenimage [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 4:20 PM

US_Infidel,

I work for the Dept of Health and Human Services here in St. Louis. You have described the same thing here to a tee. I try to keep a low profile and just mind my own business. But it's hard not to notice when a group of them get together at lunch time and chant their prayers. Loudly. I have been asked, "What are YOU staring at?!" on a few occasions.

Posted by: D. Kline [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 4:48 PM

BBC World had a report last night that the UN has pressured the United States to take in more Iraqi's "who have assisted the US".
In translation, the featured Iraqi whiner was a translator and he and a host of other Iraqi's will be in America shortly just like the above mentioned traitor.
Posted by: Lame Cherry


BBC needs to merge with Al-Nazira.

NO msolem "refugees" in the USA!! The US guvmint is opening itself up to lawsuits by people who are harmed by these "refugees".

Let them go to SOWdiarabia instead.

Let them go to Pakiland.

Let them go to one of the lovely lands of the umma.

REMEMBER THE BOSNIAK who just shot SIX at the local mall in utah!!!!! What else do you need to know??!!!!

Posted by: scrualla [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 4:49 PM

l have a friend whose son is Jewish, who can speak and read Arabic fluent, and cannot get a job working for the State Department, because he is not an arab. This young man is also American, who got his degrees in Israel, and has enough education that any State Department job should behanded to him yesterday!

Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 4:56 PM

They also do a very poor job concealing their hatred towards Whitey/infidels.

Posted by: US_infidel
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I hear you bro. That is why I moved to a job that helps the war fighter directly. No more jobs for me with 80% Islamofascist co-workers, no more harassment of for doing a good job, or for catching somebody deliberately not doing his/hers or just for being an infidel. No more dealing with dumb PC intel officers who turn a blind-eye to the mockery that this effort has become. No more frustration seeing female military or intel officers infatuated with bad Muslim men and covering for their bad behavior. Case in point, this fat White female Air Force NCO who was covering for her thug Kurdish boyfriend. When she finally could not cover for his bad behavior and he was finally fired, she took leave to follow him to Germany and got him an even better job there. Also, there was this b**** of an Army Warrant officer who was infatuated with a Sudanese troublemaker and went up to a top General to save him from being fired for a litany of very serious infractions. That guy was a leader of a gang of Sudanese trouble makers who were just up to no good. The witch dared to chastise and threaten a couple Christian workers, two of the best, for coming in late 10 minutes while her Sudanese stud and his cronies could do no wrong. Women like these above, though only contributing to a relatively a small portion of the whole mess, are symptoms of the effeminized way this folly is prosecuted. America is acting like one of those women who are into bad thugs who beat them senseless and they love them for it, provide and cover up for them.

Ladies and Gents: the ridiculously named War on Terror, is in a reality a war on you and yours waged by our Dhimmi politicians (Arch Dhimmi being Jorge) to bankrupt us, leave us more depended on ME oil, flood America with Muslims (among others), fill the ranks of the Federal Government, particularly the diplomatic corps, the Defense Department, intel agencies with Muslims. Most of those who support this folly are gullible fools; other are very calculated sinister individuals with personal or ideological stakes that run contrary to the interests of the American people.

I believe if even a significant portion of the American people woke up that would not matter under the ultra-corrupt two-party-system that produces either liberal-culture warriors out to undermined traditional American values or fake conservatives who do even more damage. True Americans have no allies in the beltway, only enemies that are dragging America down to oblivion.

Posted by: have_mercy [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 5:42 PM

No one mentioned Religion of Piss chief lover?

How much of what is happening is because of Jorge Bush and his Saudi buds?

Even Hillabeast could be better.

Posted by: mik_infidel [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 6:00 PM

Zena:

Lady, Arabic speaking Jews with advanced post-graduate degrees cannot get even linguist jobs handed out like candy to Muslim Arabs plucked from Cab Stands, the dish washing sinks of Middle Eastern restaurants, or the even more sinister types with questionable backgrounds. M.E. Christians who constituted the majority of those who volunteered after 911, and who have 1:1 ratio with Muslim Arabs in America today, are now a distinct shrinking minority in the Government employee and contractor circles supporting the intel, military and diplomatic circles. Muslim fanatics, and I say without exaggeration, have simply taken over and ganged up on the rest who did not get with the program. Personally, I said fine, if that what Uncle Sam wants manning the store, let him have them, I am out of here. Later, I relented and I got a Job supporting the war Fighter directly. However, there is an inordinate number of Muslims around my work place but, none in my office, thank God! The Government basically told the Jews do not bother filling up an application and told the Christians, if we can not fill all the positions with Muslims, we will give you whatever is left. Once hired, those Christians who do not wish to toe the Dhimmi line will have a heck of time. Muslims can and do get away with the most obscene, disloyal, and anti-American behavior. They are free to sabotage, harass at will, form clicks and spew their hatred at well without the least fear of any repercussions. Like they say, with friends like these! I hope most of you now realize that the article posted is not an isolated incident. The Government gave away the key of the Hen House to the Fox. Please thank Jorge Bin Bush and his anticonservative pals for this windfall bestowed like manna from heaven on our Muslim bothers and sisters.

Posted by: have_mercy [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 6:13 PM

You know, a sane nation would instantly recognize that muslims hold no political loyalty to any country outside of the crazy Darb Al-Islam and constitute a severe security risk. Therefore, they would not be hired for any position putting them in contact with sensitive material or information. The problem here is that we are now NOT a completely sane nation. We are operating under the madness of left wing "multiculturist" lunacy and it is killing us!

Posted by: A.I. Steamroller [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2007 8:33 PM

Secret and Top Secret clearance apparently don't mean squat. Any Moslem can get it, after he gets citizenship. The US authorities fall all over themselves to offer citizenship to an Iraqi--Wow! Aren't we lucky that he wants US citizenship?

I know of a US Air Force veteran, a Captain in the USAF, who was never given Secret clearance when working for a defense contractor. Of course, no reason was ever given to him. He continued working under "Confidential" clearance.

And here you have this Iraqi bozo who pulled one over on the US security apparatus. What does that say for the apparatus? You're a Moslem and you can get what a native-born US citizen can't get readily.

Imbeciles of Imbeciles, all are Imbeciles (US Govt.)

Posted by: unicorns62000 [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 16, 2007 12:57 AM

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