FBI Task Force Nabs Suspect Accused of Plotting Times Square Attack
The FBI and local police nabbed a man they believe was plotting to detonate explosives in Times Square.
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Uber Driver Arrested for Joining ISIS, Supporting Vicious Attack on Times Square
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Uber driver from Brooklyn was arrested Monday after authorities said he expressed support for attacking Times Square with a garbage truck. Mohamed Rafik Naji, 37, is also accused of traveling to Turkey and Yemen last year to join ISIS, the New York Daily News reports. Naji showed his support of…
FBI Reveals Potential Break in Unsolved Times Square Bombing in ’08
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A bomb that exploded in the heart of Times Square just after 3:30 a.m. in 2008 has gone unsolved for seven years. The FBI hopes to end that streak after announcing Wednesday that progress has been made in the attack, which resembled two earlier bombings in Manhattan. Investigators said three people…
Behind-the-Scenes Look at FBI Providing Counterterrorism Security at Times Square
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While more than one billion people tuned in to watch the ball drop at Times Square on New Year’s eve, a massive counterterrorism operation was underway. CBS News went behind the scenes to see how the FBI keeps the city safe during one of the busiest nights of the year. “It’s a…
FBI Dir. Robert Mueller Continues to Bang the Drum About the Dangers of Terrorists and the Cyber World
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There’s was nothing particularly shocking — or for that matter new — in FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III’s speech Thursday, but it was another reminder of the havoc and mischief we can expect via cyber attacks against business and government in the future. Terrorism remains the FBI’s top priority,” Mueller…
FBI: No Known Terrorist Plots Aimed at Times Square on New Year’s Eve
By Allan Lengel For AOL News With just hours to go before the ball drops, the FBI in New York says it knows of no credible terrorist threats involving the traditional New Year’s Eve celebration in Manhattan’s famed Times Square. “While there’s no credible threat, the FBI and NYPD, as they do every year, will…
It’s Life For Times Square Bomber Faisal Shahzad
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Just as expected, Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber, who authorities say had links to al Qaeda in Pakistan, was given a life sentence Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, during sentencing, told Shahzad, according to the New York Times: “You are a young man, and you will have a…
Times Square Bomber Planned to Detonate 2nd Bomb, Prosecutors Say
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The man known as the Times Square Bomber planned to set off an additional bomb two weeks later, according to court papers filed by prosecutors Wednesday, which urged the judge to give Faisal Shahzad a life sentence. The papers, a sentencing memorandum, said that Shahazd hoped to kill 40 people in…