FBI Hoped to Follow Falafel Trail to Iranian Terrorists Here
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.
Via Boing Boing.
| Terrorism | Food | Surveillance Society | Falafel |
Falafel is popular among our our Turkish and Israeli allies, but less so among Iranians who are more likely to want a chelow kabab when looking for a quick meal.
Comment #2 :: link :: November 7, 2007 06:30 PM
