By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In an announcement that came as little surprise, the Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda claimed responsibility Friday for explosive devices aboard airplanes bound for the U.S. last week, CNN reported. CNN reported that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which authorities had suspected all along, posted its claim on various radical…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Bush writes in his about to be released memoir that he personally gave the go ahead to waterboard 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who currently awaits trial in federal court. The Washington Post reports that Bush, in his book “Decision Points”, writes when the CIA asked if it could waterboard…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Navy SEAL and two other men have been busted in an ATF sting in which they allegedly smuggled illegal firearms, including AK-47 assault rifles, from Iraq and Afghanistan, and sold them to an undercover agent, federal authorities in Las Vegas said Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Times. Nicholas Bickle,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Oye! The U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York announced on Thursday the extradition of seven Israelis, who ran a lottery telemarketing scam that netted about $2 million from elderly victims in the U.S. between 2007 and September 2008. “The perpetrators of this fraudulent lottery scheme gambled and lost,” said U.S. Attorney…
