In the not-so-secret lead up to a potential war with Iran, the FBI traced a peculiar path to find terrorists: falafel sales.
Congressional Quarterly reports that in 2005 and 2006, FBI agents sifted through consumer data from San Francisco-area grocery stores hoping that sales records of falafel and other typical Middle Eastern foods would somehow [...]

President Bush has been trying to whip up hysteria about Iran all week, saying astoundingly off-the-wall things like, “If you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing” the Iranians from gaining the means to make nuclear weapons. That would be weird — considering everything else [...]