Nov 07
War and chickpeas
cooking, cooking, falafel, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, San Francisco, San Jose, stupid, terrorism, wtf Comments Off
From CQ Politics:
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.
OK, I confess: I have purchased and eaten falafels on several occasions. I’ll come quietly.