Caught One

No, I�m not talking about a high ranking al Qaida member. I�m talking about an enemy journalist.

HOUSTON MAN CHARGED WITH EXPORTING NIGHT VISION LENSES TO IRAN

A part-time cameraman who worked for NBC found out the hard way that “Akbar,” the international broker he had met on eBay, wasn’t really looking to ship stolen night-vision lenses to Iran.

Instead, the broker was a federal customs agent, and the cameraman, Erik Kyriacou, 24, of North Babylon, found himself in a Philadelphia courtroom Monday pleading guilty to four federal counts, including trying to export technology to an “axis of evil” country…

Kyriacou was arrested last April after offering four Astroscope night-vision lenses for sale in a public auction on eBay, then privately negotiating an $8,000 sale price with the undercover agent, court records show. He shipped them to an address in Vienna, Austria, in January 2004, according to the court papers.

He had stolen them from NBC, where he worked as a news camerman, Welsh said.

The US Attorney�s Office report

Found at Michelle Malkin’s blog

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