FBI and INS agents have arrested a naturalized Moroccan who claimed to be a Lebanese refugee in the 1970s when he came to the US. The man, arrested in Brooklyn this week, had created such a tangled legend that the Feds aren’t even really sure what his real name is, and he has been charged as “FNU, LNU” (first name unknown, last name unkown) along with a string of aliases.

The man was hired by The Titan Corp, a major scammer, I mean contractor, to work as an interpreter with US military units in Iraq, where for over 2 years he handled information with a high security content.

According to a criminal complaint filed (with no fanfare or press release) last Thursday in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, the interpreter, who had been granted a "high-level clearance to access classified information," has been charged with making a variety of false statements to FBI and Department of Defense officials as well as the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Jeepers, the guy was arrested, held without bail pending arraignment, charged in a criminal complaint with no press conference. Based on past experience I’d have expected the FBI to have arranged a conference in Yankee Stadium to accommodate all the lapdog presstitutes. I mean, the 5 month Quantico school for FBI agents has a 2 week block of instruction solely devoted to obtaining advantageous TV coverage on every single arrest. This is big. Really big. An Arabic person sneaks into the US, gets a fake ID, bamboozles the INS into giving him a green card and then naturalization papers, goes to work for a politically powerful DOD contractor, gets access to US military secrets for over 2 years. Shouldn’t we expect a major case expose, with at least a Deputy Assistant Attorney General flown in from Washington to make the announcement?

While in Iraq, the interpreter, who is believed to be 45 and of Moroccan descent, fraudulently accessed "classified information of the United State Military" while assigned to various units, including "an intelligence group in the 82nd Airborne Division."

I guess if we hadn’t been busy the last 4 years dumping Arabic translators because they were homosexuals, but still loyal and willing patriots, we might not have been bitten by yet another Bu$hCo security failure.

The Smoking Gun has more details, as well as photocopies of the 12 page complaint. And a hand salute to Buzzsflash for the tipoff.