{"id":2401,"date":"2007-11-08T10:16:17","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T10:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2007-11-08T10:16:17","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T10:16:17","slug":"2007-11-8-total-falafel-awareness-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2401","title":{"rendered":"Total Falafel Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2007\/11\/fbi-mined-groce.html\">FBI Mined Grocery Store Records to Find Iranian Terrorists<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bay Area FBI agents wanting to find Iranian secret agents data-mined grocery store records in 2005 and 2006, hoping that tahini purchases would lead them to domestic terrorists, according to Congressional Quarterly&#8217;s Jeff Stein. The head of the FBI&#8217;s criminal investigations unit &#8211; Michael Mason &#8211; shut down the Total Falafel Awareness program, arguing it would be illegal to put someone on a terrorist watch list for simply sticking skewers into lamb, Stein reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really this is getting ridiculous. Is that the best lead they can come up with? I also like the idea that would-be terrorist hiding in America are somehow exclusively eating their national foods. I bet Muhammad Atta and company ate tons of Twinkies, mexican food and loved the spicy chicken wings at Hooters.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2007\/11\/fbi-mined-groce.html\">FBI Mined Grocery Store Records to Find Iranian Terrorists<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bay Area FBI agents wanting to find Iranian secret agents data-mined grocery store records in 2005 and 2006, hoping that tahini purchases would lead them to domestic terrorists, according to Congressional Quarterly&#8217;s Jeff Stein. The head of the FBI&#8217;s criminal investigations unit &#8211; Michael Mason &#8211; shut down the Total Falafel Awareness program, arguing it would be illegal to put someone on a terrorist watch list for simply sticking skewers into lamb, Stein reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really this is getting ridiculous. Is that the best lead they can come up with? I also like the idea that would-be terrorist hiding in America are somehow exclusively eating their national foods. I bet Muhammad Atta and company ate tons of Twinkies, mexican food and loved the spicy chicken wings at Hooters.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[232,226,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}