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Iraq
To Turn Over CD-ROMs Containing Biowar Plans, Allow Unfettered Access
to "Favorites" Folder
Officials Investigating Source Of Technical
Expertise
10/2/02
- Intelligence agents stormed the Bay Ridge Home Computing Learning
Center in Brooklyn early this morning on a tip that Iraqi agents
had posed as students and infiltrated several computer classes.
It is feared that the suspects were able to gather confidential
information such as how to save files, change screensavers, traverse
windows explorer, and save key websites in a "favorites"
folder on their browsers. The suspected agents enrolled in these
classes using false identification with "white-sounding"
names, completely circumventing the background checks on citizens
of Arab descent required by John Ashcroft.
Questions and
suspicions arose after Iraq, based on an agreement to allow weapons
inspectors back into the country and turn over weapons plans and
equipment,
handed over four CD-Roms containing information regarding equipment,
substances and technology that could be used in the production of
weapons of mass destruction.
Law enforcement
officials were stunned to find that, according to the Internet Explorer
history tab on several workstations, students had been visiting
sites related to bomb-building material, offshore bank accounts,
and Brooklyn Middle Eastern restaurant listings. The officials hammered
the instructors to find more information, gravely concerned that
the Iraqis may have had access to CD burners and possibly even file-sharing
networks such as Kazaa and Morpheus right there in the classroom.
An anonymous FBI spokesman conceded the possibility that Iraq actually
made copies of these plans before turning them over to the United
States.
Critics swiftly
attacked intelligence agencies, saying they should have suspected
something was amiss when one of the students demanded his chair
be gold-encrusted or else "face the wrath of Allah, who will
oversee rivers of blood in the land of the Great Satan", according
to instructors.
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