{"id":62339,"date":"2015-10-16T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62339"},"modified":"2015-10-16T10:26:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T14:26:24","slug":"mostafa-ahmed-awwad-spy-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62339","title":{"rendered":"Mostafa Ahmed Awwad; spy sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mick sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/hamptonroads.com\/2015\/10\/navy-engineer-gets-max-sentence-espionage#_ga=1.252798537.1543903430.1439395471\">Virginian-Pilot<\/a> which tells the tale of naturalized US citizen and former Navy engineer, Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, who tried to sell the plans of the USS Gerald Ford to the Egyptians, in the land of his birth. He was sentenced to eleven years in prison and five years of supervised release when he gets out;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not a bad man or an evil person,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m just a man who lost his way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Awwad didn&#8217;t make a single mistake, countered federal prosecutor Ben Hatch.<\/p>\n<p>When U.S. Navy officials told him he&#8217;d have to renounce his dual citizenship with Egypt to get a security clearance, he went to the Egyptian embassy seeking help to keep his Egyptian citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Awwad told investigators it was there that someone asked him if he&#8217;d be willing to hand over information about nuclear technology. He responded by saying, &#8220;Allah willing. May Allah make this possible!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Between September and December of 2014, he talked to and met with an FBI agent posing as an Egyptian spy several times, Hatch said. Awwad told the agent he had &#8220;top secret&#8221; clearance, even though he had only &#8220;secret&#8221; clearance in August 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Awwad did hand over a thumb drive containing schematics of the Ford to the FBI agent. So, now he reaps his just rewards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mick sends us a link to the Virginian-Pilot which tells the tale of naturalized US citizen &hellip; <a title=\"Mostafa Ahmed Awwad; spy sentenced\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62339\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mostafa Ahmed Awwad; spy sentenced<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}