Former Intel Engineer Pleads Guilty To Taliban Aid

theodp writes "Following up on an earlier Slashdot story, software engineer Maher "Mike" Hawash pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to provide services to the Taliban, agreeing to testify against other suspects in exchange for the dropping of other terrorism charges. He will serve at least seven years in federal prison under the deal. In March, federal agents seized Hawash from a parking lot outside Intel Corp., where he worked, and held him as a material witness until charges were filed five weeks later."

Comments

shoulda shaved or something

[gfody]

look at him.. I don't mean to come off as a racist or anything, but seriously. when you are in fact a terrorist, wouldn't it make sense to sharpen up a little, maybe try and cut down on the co-worker-thinks-im-a-terrorist-because-i-look-lik e-this factor?

Re:shoulda shaved or something

[gfody]

at least they caught him before he was able to complete his mission and convince you guys to implement cpu serials numbers in the p4

Re:shoulda shaved or something

[leiz]

reminds me of Stallman...

Re:shoulda shaved or something

[chibiyoukai]

So.. I guess he's a terrorist, too?

Re:shoulda shaved or something

[Anonymous Coward]

Yea, 14 Amish terrorist were arrested for driving their horse drawn carriages into the world trade center.

Mod me down ... Flame bait

Re:shoulda shaved or something

[mnmn]

Is THIS the kind of people taking our tech jobs away?!?

Man I must have the wrong approach to looking for work. They are looking for diversifying. I'll put gay nymphomaniac Siberian on my resume.

Re:shoulda shaved or something

[DoorFrame]

Was that Courtoom sketch done by a five year old? It looks like it was done with Crayons. I'll stick with the evil photo until we get a talented sketch artist.

Re:shoulda shaved or something

[Rolo Tomasi]

Dude, you don't wanna look pretty when you're in prison.

Maher "Mike" Hawash

[embedded_C]

... you are a very bad person. You are hereby sentenced to seven years in a federal pound me in the ass prison.

Re:YES!!! FINALLY!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn, I was agreeing with you up to that sarcasm comment. Oh well.

Remember kids...

[AvantLegion]

... Intel supports terrorism. Buy AMD.

Re:Talaban != Government?

[Anonymous Coward]

The Talaban is not a Terrorist Organization.

Well you are right in the sense that they are not a terrorist organization in that they are no longer an organization of any kind. When they blew up the Budda statues is when I knew that their days were numbered. Karma anyone?

The patriotic CPU..

[Stormie]

..I'm so glad I use AMD exclusively!

Re:Weird

[Anonymous Coward]

What are you nuts? Thats 3 years of beard growth. Not wierd at all. He hit mid life crises and went wacko.

Mod me down, flame bait

Re:Exactly, he looks like a terrorist so arrest hi

[elmegil]

or blowing up federal buildings? Oh wait, he wasn't bald.

Re:Wonder how much his 'defense fund' received

[EinarH]

I don't know what you are insinuating, but yeah, they are probablly all in it only for his money.
Their whole life they planned this. All his friend thought this out; convincing Mike to support and fight for Taliban. Taking uni degrees and getting jobs in the communiyty close to him, lurking around him for the whole purpose of becoming his friends etc.

But it was all a giant scam; through the support side and the extremly lucerative Paypal system they planned to "rack in" money. Doing this they planned and still hope to one day take over the whole world, still "racking in" money through the Paypal system, and one day achive Total World Domination(TM).

Re:Talaban != Government?

[mattdm]

Could I please see this proof?

Sure -- it's right there next to the weapons of mass destruction. See?

This just in

[Anonymous Coward]

Taliban unveils Pentium licensing terms

Tuesday August 5, 9:08 PM EDT

KABUL, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Taliban, which claims its blueprint for proprietary chip is embedded illegally in versions of the Intel Pentium microprocessor, unveiled on Tuesday details of a controversial licensing plan for companies using Pentium.

The plan, which will initially cost $699 for a computer with a single central processor running Pentium, has irked advocates of the IA-32 architecture.

Taliban, based in Afghanistan, sent shock waves through the ranks of Pentium users in March when it sued U.S. government for $1 billion, charging that the world's largest computer company had taken parts of the Taliban chip and introduced them into Pentium, violating Taliban's intellectual property rights.

New Ad Campaign

[shoemakc]

I can see the new ad campaign now:

Osama Inside(tm)

ba bing ba bing...

-Chris

Re:I understand his feelings.

[javiercero]

"I felt very ashamed of my origins, but the naturaly friendlyness of the U.S people helped bring me out of it."

Ladies and gentelman we have the first fresh of the boat self hating troll. Today is truly a day to remember, for Troll population has added yet another member that enhances the diversity of our Troll park, reflecting the realities of the melting pot that is America!

Re: No... No... No...

[Black Parrot]

> Remember ... dark middle-eastern looking men are Terrorists ... they hurt our economy by destroying resources, spreading fear, and general mayhem.

> white balding men are Embezzalers and Stock Manipulators (for instance a certain umbrella organization or "canopy" group we can all think of), they hurt the economy by destroying competitors resources (money, clients, possible engagements/sales), spreading fear and ... hmmm ... maybe you have a point :)

Yeah, but the embezzelers and stock manipulators are just sucking money out of the pockets of the middle class, back "up" into the pockets of the class that was meant to have money.

camo? suspicious?

[RMH101]

I always look at people with buzz cuts and camo suspiciously. I don't *do* anything though. That would be dumb. They're the army...

Re:No... No... No...

[enomar]

I'll take someone embezzling my money and manipulating my stock over someone killing me any day.