Falafel Tracking
By Nicole Belle Monday Nov 05, 2007 7:01pm
Don't tell BillO. Homeland Security has reached a whole new low.
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.
BRILLIANT! Because, you know, no one except Iranian terrorists likes falafels. Oy.
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1mpeach!
What is it with conservatives and confusion about what falafels can do?
those things look like road apples......mmmmmmmmmmm....yummmm
If this gets Bill Oreilly thrown in Guantanamo indefinitely, then I'd have to say it might have some merit.
So Bill O'Reilly is under suspicion of terroristic activities? He wanted to rub a falafel on Andrea Mackris...
First of all: what Iranian terrorists? When's the last time an Iranian terror cell pulled off any kind of mission in the US?
I think it's mostly Saudis. Maybe they should track sales of cocaine and women's underwear.
Second: how many Iranian terrorists do you think there are in the US? Enough to statistically increase falafel sales?
Third: Suppose you DO notice falafel sales going up. How do you track that to the name and address of a terrorist? Wouldn't it be easier to, say, track immigration records? While being not stupid, that has the added benefit of being legal.
I'm beginning to think that whenever the administration hides behind secrecy ("don't want the terrorists to know our tactics"), they're not always hiding nefarious and illegal activities. Most often it's just stupid and embarrassing shit.
And now everybody who bought falafel in the SF-San Jose area over the time frame in question, innocent or not, has an entry in the Feds' security data base, and every bit of data "harvested" about them in the future will be attched to same, and the government will keep all the information on them forever, just because they can. But remember, this is the land of the free! It's enough to boggle a moose's mind.
Next: tracking taco bell sales to find illegal Mexican immigrants. farking brilliant...
Oops:
But remember, this is the land of the free!
Outstanding!
And if they track KY jelly sales, they'll ferret out sleeper cells of ultra-right-wing-crazychristianevangelicalfundamentalist, republican pols and church leaders enjoying their communal 'slumber' parties.
Oops:
I've tried twice to indicate that "this is the land of the free" is sarcastic to avoid confusion. But HTML markers are too much for this poor moose to comprehend....
so what grocery stores in san fran are keeping and giving away this information?
Nucking Futs.
mo_dems @ 11:
Every one that uses customer courtesy cards.... Don't use 'em unless you want them all tracking everything you buy.
Okay, falafel-related spy novels:
"The Hunt for Red Tabouli"
"The Kebab That Came In From The Rain"
Robert Ludlum's "The Hummus Exclusion"
"The Little Drummer Pita"
With such sophisticated intelligence-gathering techniques being applied, I'm surprised they didn't just open a carpet store or a 7-11, put a "Help Wanted" sign in the front window, and wait for the applicants to start lining up...
Bullwinkle @ 8:
No it's not. We may as well be living in the 1950s.
Soon Bush will declare that God spake unto him that only good "Merkin" foods like mac and cheese, corn dogs, and potato chips will be allowed to be served. Anyone buying anything else gets put on the "list" and then visited by the SA...er, I mean Blackwater.
more at my blog...
ayeee ariba ariba andale ! Chihuahua! Dis good idea mi friends! mi dink dis coo wurk for Mehicans tu! Jes falow taco bell rappers to di border and plug up di hole wit som cheet rock! di illegals no safe!
So I was eating some TACOS with my friend Manual, he is a man-u-will like, and he said to me "Senor, have you met my friend Wu?" A short chinaman crossed the room chomping on an eggroll and carrying a cup of tea. "Les, I am Wu. This is my wife Natasha." A tall dark haired woman followed behind him, holding a bottle of Vodka in one hand, a bowl of beet soup in the other. "Did you hear?" She asked, "They found Dick Cheneys undisclosed location."
"How did that happen?" I asked.
"A bunch of Democrats surveyed markets across America--- when they found a neighborhood where a larger than usual amount of shit, fishheads, and ass sweat was sold, they knew they were near."
I'm pretty sure falafel isn't even part of Persian cuisine. I am not Persian, but my parents are Iranian (they aren't Persian either). I grew up eating Persian food. My mother never, not once, made falafel. I've never seen it served in a Persian restaurant either. I could be wrong, but I don't think I am. Iranian terrorists would much more likely be purchasing all the pomegranates and walnuts in order to make the tasty Fesenjan.
Federal Bureau of Idiocy.
Yes, what mo_dems said. WHICH STORES cooperated? That's the real story here (and neither C&L nor the link provided answered it). We can count on the FBI plowing through any data it gets, but who gave them the data?
Yes I know that the credit card companies are in bed with them, but I'm pretty sure that they don't get grocery item lists from the stores; the stores themselves would need to provide it.
FTA: Sifted through customer data collected by San Francisco-area grocery stores was torpedoed by the head of the FBI’s criminal investigations division, Michael A. Mason, who argued that putting somebody on a terrorist list for what they ate was ridiculous — and possibly illegal.
Great! At least there's one person in charge with enough sense...
Mason, who is leaving the FBI to become security chief for Verizon, could not be reached for comment.
Aw crap...
JasonS @ 14:
Arh, arh!
Back in the 50s we staked out the local A&P to see who was eating potatos and cabbage.
CAUGHT THEM DAMN COMMIES "RED" HANDED, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
I think if we check out where they are selling DICK, we will be able to find the GOP convention
Middle Eastern foods = terrorists
Mexican foods = illegal immigrants
Chinese foods = IT hackers
French foods = surrender monkeys
Italian foods = Mafioso
Texas Toast = GOP morons
jtmonty46 @ 24:
How about an Elmore Leonard Crime tome:
"Maximum Baba Ganooj"
I CHECKED OUT WHERE THERE WAS A LARGE UPSWEEP IN THE SALE OF CARPET...
SURE AS SHIT I FOUND LYNNE CHENEY
SNARF: The only explosives to be found at the end of a falafel trial is in the bathroom (scene at the end of of Thundercats, camera pans away from earth, Lion, Cheetara, Panthro, and the Twins can be seen laughing) SFX: Thunder Thunder Thunder Catssss! Couger Growl Fades.
Mark Mywords @ 25:
Borscht!!!! Don't forget the goddamned borscht!
Yeah, when I'm in say Germany, I go looking for a cheesburger. Wouldn't trust any of that ferin food ya'know.
Oy veyze me! I don't know about Iranians, but I'll betcha the FBI did find a lot of Israeli agents. I know a number of Jewish and Israeli places in NYC that make and sell falafel - they claim this food as Israeli in origin.
Yummy.
PLEASE tell me you're kidding .... PLEASE ?!
"After receiving a tip from an informant that possible terrorist elements have altered their behavior in order to avoid detection, authorities have begun sifting through customer data collected by San Francisco-area grocery stores, looking for sudden spikes of normal consumer purchasing patterns that would indicate the terrorists attempts to 'blend in'..."
First you take the chick-peas and you mash 'em, you mash 'em
Then you take the humus and you spread it, you spread it
Then you take Al Queda........Wait.
'And in other news, 4 men were arrested with importing 6 ounces of chick peas, a banned substance known to be used as an ingredient by iranian terrorists'
=my2c
BC
Falafels? Really? I thought falafels were Greek or something. Many of the dishes that are categorized as 'Mid Eastern' are not dishes I encountered when I lived in Tehran. To find Iranians (secret agents or otherwise) who cook like the Iranians I met in Iran the FBI will need to search for purchases of fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, rice, grains, nuts, lamb, fresh breads, spices.
Culinary profiling.
Falafel Now, Feel Better Later!
Well, that's just great. I bought 3 50-pound bags of falafel mix to make a statue of Ari Fleischer and now my name is probably on some list.
Sherlock Holmes couldn't connect the dots better then that and why stop , they should go to the BLOOD BANK to catch all of the murderous, blood thirsty NEOCONS .
I live in San Francisco. Mediterranean food is my all time favorite. Therefore, I guess I am the next waterboarding contestant.
Purchase and use of falafel equals Islamo-fascist (HA) then Bill'O-job is an Iranian terrorist! Lock him up before he causes any more harm!
tyler82 @ 44:
Bush will tell you he went waterboarding up at the lake and it was a blast!
behind every falafel there lies a terrrist.....why do I hear the theme to GET SMART.this sounds like something Mel Brooks would write.
harry @ 40:
this is funny LOL
tyler82 @ 44:
Do all contestants get the play at home board game edition?
I wonder what the FBI agents ate............more Get Smart.......
All the more reason NOT to sign up with your local grocery store for a "preferred customer" card to get the sale items. First it was to track your purchases for marketing research...now it's to give information to the FBI...about my grocery buying habits?? If I use my debit card, they can track my habits too! Do I have to pay cash for everything? Geesus H - I'm sick of it!!
It occurs to me this would be a good opportunity to send a few tons of falafel mix direct to Bill O'Reilly's house ...
And you wonder why Bin Laden hasn't been caught? The only thing more comical would be the OTHER ideas presented in the meetings for tracking "turr-rists".
Great, now you can get on the terror list if you buy a lot of tahini...
Or, BillO's got his mojo back!
Max: The old Do Something So Incredibly Stupid They Take Us For Idiots And Let Their Guard Down trick. It's brilliant, Chief.
Max: I tracked them down by looking for unusual falafel purchases at supermarkets.
Chief: Max, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Max: Would you believe they were selling Republican Guard Scout cookies door to door?
Chief: No.
Max: Would you believe they were all subscribers to the Jihadi Journal?
That awful falafel! I hoped they tracked it to its' frightful owner.
we have already lost... the f*cking morons are running the insaneaslym...f*cking losers, take your heads out of your asses...
I Dunno.
100% of the highjackers who were in those four airliners were of Middle Eastern cultural background and had been attempting to conceal their origins.
If there are/were others among us who fit that description, they are certainly trying to conceal their cultural loyalties, given our current sensitivity to that consideration. (A taxi driver will tell you he is 'Persian' rather than 'Iranian' for example, to avoid the bigotry that may follow an admission that he comes from 'The Axis Of Evil.')
Young, eager FBI agents trying to find ways to ferret out those who may hide amongst us, and who might not think buying their favorite food would expose them, could be persuaded to enter data from the local Whole Foods to see if names pop out that they don't have already. I have no idea what the probability is that a person's purchase of relatively high quantities of Middle Eastern food indicates that they of Middle Eastern extraction, but it ain't zero.
The program seems to be a reasonable police technique to me. I want our law enforcement people to know all there is to know about the possible whereabouts of those among us who may be members of a 'sleeper cell' bent on expressing, perhaps justified, anger against our citizens and property.
The current circumstances ain't bean ball.
Thank Allah I gave up Falafal for lent!
Can someone hummus a song? Oops! Sorry! I'll wait till the music thread.
You know what's funny? You can hardly find falafel in Iran. Falafel is NOT common in Iran at all. Neither is hummus. Grapeleaf raps are - different kinds of them. Pita bread is not. Sigh sigh sigh...
Shit. That makes me want to buy a falafel...and I don't even know what it is.
Falafal is Arab cuisine. My husband is Iranian and he never had a Falafal until he came to the US. We have been married for 26 years and I have never seen Falafal served in any Persian homes here in the US or Iran. I'm an Oklahoma girl and I like falafals a lot better than my husband. This is what our government's intelligence is based on? We are doomed!
James Bishop @ 59:
Oh, come on, James. Even the FBI agent overseeing this said it was inefficient and might be illegal. The question isn't whether there are bad guys out there--there are--or whether it's a good idea to catch them--it is. This ain't the way to do it. This particular debacle put who knows how many innocent people on the terror watch list--we'll never know because the Feds won't ever tell you if you're on it or how you got on it, and they sure as hell will never let you off it. And as noted countless times here, the entire laugh riot was based on the false assumption that falafel was part of the Iranian diet when it's an Arab food. And if, by your premise, the bad guys are trying to conceal their identities, perhaps they'd avoid their native foods entirely and eat at, oh, McDonalds?
Even a moose can see there's a better way to catch the bad guys than this farcical exercise in futility.
Karen Janbaz @ 64:
One word: Curveball. I speculate Curveball (Rafid Ahmed Alwan) told them to look for Iranians under every falafel purchase, in exchange for his greencard. I'll bet these assholes think Persians speak Arabic too. That info came from Curveball too.
well damm me, i guess the easiest solution for the wingnuts would be to rename it "Freedom Falafel", there you go problem solved :)
James Bishop @ 59:
If only these young FBI agents you speak of know Falafel is not Iranian. But they are not at fault. You are. You support a government that instead of funding education, it invests in bombs, support state terrorism and dictators around the world; then when it blows back; it funds fallafel tracking young agents from bufu nowhere.
This is tragically funny...
And here is a fact since you also product of this whole system and are not educated about Middle East/Iran/world culture, politics, etc. (It blows my mind you allow yourself to write on these things):
There is no single Middle Eastern Cultural background that you speak of.
No Iranian has been involved in terrorism in US or elsewhere - I am not counting Iranian state's support of groups that resort to terrorism. And even those have never got here. They are smarter than out government when it comes to world affairs. Not smarter than out corporation though. Yay for our corporatism!
Mark Mywords @ 29:
Lynn Cheney and her duaghter as well!
As this is clearly a falafel thread, does anyone have any good recipes they'd like to share for extra hot spicey falafel dip sauces :)
I've been selling on the road for a year between San Bruno and Santa Clara three times a day and I eat lots of good falafel and I am at least the last time I looked, I'm still Irish. Does this mean that I am OK? I mean everything seems to be copesetic.
Who put that word in my mouth.
That may be the falafuls talking.
stasi fun for the whole non-white family. Eugenics never died to the neocons
Ah, as expected, people chose to miss my point.
First, some of you assume I do not understand Middle Eastern cultural complexities. You don't know where I am writing from. Let's just say it is a foreign country.
Going back to the original article...
>According to Israeli-born Youssef Bodansky, director of the conservative-backed Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, Iran already had a terrorist network in place here in the early 1980s.
It “included safe houses in major cities, weapons, ammunition, money, systems to provide medical and legal aid, false identity papers, and intelligence for the operatives,” Bodansky said in a widely circulated 1993 Associated Press report. It was “large and spanned the United States.”
The FBI was unable to find any of it.
Two years later, in February 1995, Bodansky’s Task Force was back with another warning widely circulated by the news media.
“Iranian sources confirmed Tehran’s desire and determination to strike inside the U.S. against objects symbolizing the American government in the near future,” it said,
But again there were no FBI round-ups.
Only about a dozen Iranians in the United States have been arrested over the years, mostly in connection with small-time fund raising scams on behalf of Hamas, which included drug peddling, scalping cheap North Carolina cigarettes in New York and counterfeiting Viagra.
But that doesn’t mean serious subversives aren’t here, says Walid Phares, director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington.<
Given the stupid things we are doing in Iraq and about to do in Iran (And, since we have elected GWB TWICE, we support his policies in the view of multitudes everywhere.), there will be another attack inside the US. When that happens the FBI can expect to be criticized because they didn't consider what, in hindsight, will seem obvious. 'What?!? You didn't notice that three people living in the same flat on Knob Hill were consuming 1200 times the average amount of 'Middle Eastern' food as compared with everyone else within a ten block radius? You didn't check 'em out and discover that two of them worked at the airport, and the third was illegally in the country? ALL of them had been subjects of complaints from neighbors who said they seemed unfriendly, kept to themselves, and smelled of Elder Berries.The entire FBI should be shut down, and security turned over to the Green Party' (Of which I am a member.)
We want the FBI to find these people who do not want to be found. I am supportive of their trying innovative ways to do so, and even of their making mistakes. Show me even one person who has been 'put of a terrorist list' for their culinary history.
Similarly, an increase in demand for soul food correlates with an increase in MF'ers wantin' iced tea.
Gekke @ 70:
Hers is what I do. 1 onion chopped fine, 1 small can japenos or serranos thats about 6ozs, then mexican hot sauce valentina, get the full quart bottle and I usually use about 6 to 12oz. put them together put them back in the back of the refridgerator but get them soon within 2 days and they are great sauce for fallaful. The fallaful don't know, your friends don't know, and if you speak well to the yourgut about how how everyone will remenber them better with good hot sauce then it might work well.
Try it!
natisman @ 75:
Thanks for the recipe, I do prefer to make all my dishes from fresh ingredients, i.e. no tins, bottles or preservatives ;)
the last one i made was something like this
chilies (hot as you can get)
Corriander (cillantro)
chopped tomato
chopped cucumber
chopped red onion
lemon juice
oregano
cumin powder
salt
stick in a bowl and let it develop for a few hours, the more the better :)
I get my falafel fix from Saleem. Early on I figured out he was Lebanese. Later I found out he was Christian and active in the local Lebanese Christian community.
I'm sure there are falafel spikes associated with Church dinners or festivals.
But WTH, they are probably harboring terrorists.
Mark Mywords @ 20:
Most Excellent!!! And that just might work too.
Gekke @ 76:
You heathen!
You use store bought pre-ground cumin. Everybody knows that its vitality and essence quickly leaches out. If you don't want lame cumin powder in a bottle you buy seeds which can retain their essence over longer times and keep them in the freezer. Then you toast them to release and slightly alter their essential oils before grinding them.
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.
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Good grief...whoever thought THAT one up must have been a real Grade-A, world-class, bona fide bottom-feeding chucklehead in the true GOP tradition. I mean, for pity's sake...has anyone on that team every eaten Chinese food? I'm assuming that they have...but does that automatically mean that they're Chinese?
What's actually rather scary about this is the fact that whoever thought this up was quite likely a college graduate...
MonkeyBoy @ 79:
Nice try:) I use a 5 inch gramite mortar and pestel to grind up my freshly roasted cumin seeds, just didnt want to throw people of the recipe too much ;)
James Bishop @ 59:
I heard the NYPD are looking to ban Calzones and Pizza in the city as part of a new campaign to ferret out the mafia. Get a grip!
I hear they are tracking Cheetos and Budwieser sales in Tehran as we speak!
James Bishop @ 73:
As expected, you seem to be too dense to figure out that people on here are smarter than your 5th grade logic with your delusions of grandeur.
Let's just say you're an Israeli fascist who's hell bent on getting the U.S. involved in another war by proxy. More American money and lives will be lost for selfish, lying pricks like you and those who aid and abet you.
As our friends across the pond say, "Sod off you wanker!".
miss_kitty @ 28:
That would explain how The Thin Man avoided detection.
James Bishop @ 73:
You wish. On all points above.
Man, forget "1984"! The idiots running our government watched Get Smart episodes for inspiration.
James Bishop @ 73:
Assume I'm James Bishop..and I'm and idiot. But I repeat myself.
Show me even one person who has been ‘put of a terrorist list’ for their culinary history.
I'd like to show you the list Sparky but NOBODY gets to see the list. If you are on it they won't tell you when you got there or why.
I confess to a lust for tabouli
And repent my actions most truly:
If it weren't for chickpeas
I could do what I please
But I still adore hummus
So sue me!
Falafel Flame Wars Of '07...
Two notable passages from the source to which Firedoglake points:
That's good.
Now, that's odd.
I must confess to having eaten falafel 1. at a restaurant run by Israelis 2. on Christmas Eve 3. with my best friend, who is Hindu. If this had happened in California, I would have been locked up forever because of the three-strikes law.
The NYTimes had an article about the origin of falafel some time ago. While Israelis claim it as theirs, they do acknowledge when pressed that it is actually of Palestinian origin.
MHealy @ 8:
But... but...
I NEED TACOS TO LIVE!!!
Holy crapfastiastric!
Vegetarians everywhere, I'll hide you in my crawlspace. You American hating few order those "special meals" so you might as well be asking to be drowned in a simulated manner.
Luckily an invisible being in the sky will help us all,
Amen
P.S. make sure to love the correct invisible being or you will be tortured for all eternity
kablooie @ 90:
ROFLMFAO! I love it...BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are B A T S H I T C R A Z Y.
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fiver @ 2:
Too funny - but you're right of course.
We need O'Leilly to write a "How to" manual.
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So is this because of what people are doing with them in their showers?
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I still hate Glen Beck, Question if you buy some Falafel is there a chance you will be water boarded by Glen Beck and Michelle Makin
I love Falafel...should I turn myself in?
I am concerned about Christian fundamentalists, their stated agenda for conversion and their effects on my world, which I get to observe on a daily basis where I live. I am not going to turn my head to what they are doing that infringes unjustly on the lives of others, because they include "innocents" among their ranks.
When subjective labels like "terrorist", "enemy combatant" and "traitor" are freely used, the chance to objectively assess dangerous human behavior becomes a wash. There is a way to observe, to be aware and to react as necessary to the least damage of all.
It's sad that we can not trust our current government to even begin to attempt such an approach to dealing with the reality that as long as the faithful and well-intended follow and lay down under the fanatical purpose of the extremists, whatever the organization; corporate, political or religious, they too remain an allegiance, or at least an unknowing tool of dangerous power despite my respect for them as potential innocents who would otherwise do the right thing and be an asset to a better future.
The article reminds me of something the former KGB defector Gordievsky said.
In the mid 80's, the KGB warned their bureau in the UK to watch out for price increases in the price per unit of blood offered to blooddonors by the UK bloodbanks.
Noone at the bureau had the gut's to tell their superiors in Moscow that the UK bloodbank system is based on voluntary contributions without payments.
All you have to do is look at the huge numbers of iraqi and Iranian terrorist that have been captured over the years with Falafel breath. Here is a very short list of terrorist from these 2 countrys captured over the last decade.
Iraq
1. N/a
2. N/a
Iran
1. N/a
2. N/a
here is a short list of American terrorist
1. George W Bush ( responsible for hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi deaths)
2. Richard Cheney ( responsible for billions of dollars in oil companys profits and the raping of the United States treasury and thousands of american military deaths)
3. Collin Powell ( responsible for being easily fooled by Cheneys minions)
4. Alberto Gonzales ( responsible for the Murder of the US Constitution)
5. Diebold corp. ( responsible for the theft of 2 elections causing the above)
6. David Horrorbitch ( responsible for the islamo fascist awareness week having no clue what a facist is, Dave your a fascist along with Rush, Michelle, Oliely, Glen Beck, the stupid little bastard who used to where the bow tie and all of those named above, Islamic terrorist maybe ass wholes or extremest or evil people but fascist they are not)
please see Benito Mussilini for the correct definition of Fascist.
7. Faux news (you know what they have done)
This thing's gonna backfire on 'em and catch Bill O'Reilly in yet another Republican sex sting.
This is why I don't shop at super markets pretending to be wholesale stores with ID cards.
Iranian terrrists lives in big houses made of falafel, and when a lone Homeland Security agent comes by, tracking the meat, they capture him and feed him falafel until he is fat enough to eat. It's a sad story. Not for kids.
Duct Tape, Color Codes, Shampoo on an aircraft, and now Falafels.
Are we insane yet?
Falafels are definately not a part of Iranian cuisine. Trust me. I've never ever had a falafel. This theory of tracking Iranian terrorists through falafel sales is stupid on so many levels. :)
I'm an Anglo-Franco-Germanic-Scot American. I LOVE falafel, and on occasion buy it and prepare it at home. IDIOTS!
I think the word "intelligence" needs to be removed from all the current law agencies. But then accuracy isn't one of their strong points either.
Well, guess what I'm having for lunch today!
First of all, falafel is not a Persian food, never was. It is in most Israeli deli/bistros and of course, Arabic cafes.
There is no correlation between Arabs and Iranians other than the fact their nation is plunked in the Middle East.
The name IRAN is a Greek word for ARYAN...for the obvious reasons. Linking Arab/Iranian is as stupid as saying Germans speak Italian and eat pesto simply because they are on the same continent.
Secondly, the Iranian's have not attacked anyone in FIVE CENTURIES, even though Western nations have occupied and pillaged theirs repeatedly. Even when Bush the First blew up one of their civilian planes in Iranian airspace in 1988 -- the Iranians still did not retaliate/attack anyone.
Thirdly: if you want to find the Iranians, try Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Ave, Mercedes and BMW dealerships spending their hard earned money via being a highly educated valuable work force.
foobar @ 21:
Just copied the recipe for Fesejan. Sounds delicious. Guess I can expect the FBI at my door soon.
You sound so surprised that someone from the Middle East could be "christian." My Lebanese mother will tell you that Lebanon is/was a christian country. Generally catholic, I believe.
Gekke @ 81:
You guys do this all the time?
I'm out there working 1 or 2 jobs after retiring once and know that if I spent that much time cooking I would not have time to enjoy the food anyhow. so you folks can talk about food prep all you want to now!
I never cease to be amazed at the sheer stupidity of these clowns that are supposed to be protecting us. And, we pay them too!
Just goes to show how phony this wah of terra has been all along. The tools are desperate to dig up anything that can cover the asses of the scumbags in charge.
Well, also Iranians don't really eat fallafel, that's more of an Arab thing. Iranians are Persians and have different foods.
This is a major scientific discovery. For years we've wondered how to explain the mysterious changes in the color-coded threat levels issued by DHS and now we know: it's based on the popularity of Middle Eastern food. So if everyone went out this weekend and had a falafel or a gyro we would probably hit code red for the first time!
If the Congress were truly interested in securing our fatherland, rather than renaming foods with "French" in their names, they should have been banning Middle Eastern food!---who knew?
Damn. You mean the 2-for-1 coupons for hummus the last couple years at my local Cub have gotten me on the no-fly list? Entrapment!
I had just finished eating 3 left over Falafels when I read this. Fortunately I was done eating, otherwise I may have choked on them, being I was laughing. I thought it was joke,then realized, it was true. I can here Cheney now, We have credible evidence that suggests , Iran has Falafel Cells in the US. and that terrorists are planning to bomb our cities with chickpeas in the form of fried balls. We can't wait for the pita bread. We must act now !
this is perhaps the most dangerous thing that has yet happened in this entire affair
kac90b @ 114:
I hear Jesus was from the middle east, if you follow those desert myths.
You see, this is how they confuse everyone: Falafel is an Arabic food, not Iranian. IF this twisted scheme works, they'll find Arabs, portray them as Iranian, bomb Iran, then say Oops!
Where's the Bin Laden task force, the admitted 911 terrorist? Why don't we ask our prez to nail that sombitch? Do we even have anyone looking for him?
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