FBI nabs DOE worker for helping Houthis build killer drones
Imagine working at a top-secret nuclear site and deciding your side hustle is helping international rebels build explosives.
Meet Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy, an electrical engineer at the Hanford nuclear site. The FBI just picked him up because, apparently, his hobbies included ordering chemicals for homemade bombs and parts for attack drones. The guy really tried to play it cool, telling his bosses he had a chemical accident when he was actually buying explosive supplies.
The wild part? He actually flew to Oman, snuck into Yemen to visit the Houthis, and then tried to play it off as U.S. government business when he got back. He even used an old, unauthorized government passport for the trip. He literally used his expertise to teach an informant how to build better drones and communications gear, thinking he was helping out a cause while being monitored by federal agents the whole time.
It takes a special kind of confidence to moonlight for a terrorist organization while working for the Department of Energy.
Source: The Hill
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