Eric Holder Jr. issued statement By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal criminal complaint charging the Nigerian National with trying to blow up the Christmas day plane from Amsterdam to Detroit, said the explosive device contained PETN or pentaerythritol, a highly explosive material. The charging document filed in federal court in Detroit Saturday, charged Umar Farkouk…
Yes, more than 8 years after the infamous Sept. 11, 2001 attack, the friendly skies still have the potential to be pretty darn scary. Here’s a Detroit Free Press account of the incident as told by some passengers. BY NAOMI R. PATTON Detroit Free Press Staff Writer DETROIT — Most of the passengers on Northwest…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –Federal authorities were investigating an incident on Christmas day in which a Nigerian man tried to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit by igniting a powdery substance during the plane’s descent, according to media reports. The New York Times reported that the White House said it…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Brett Pfeffer, who ended up testifying this summer against his former boss, Rep. William Jefferson, is getting a major sentencing reduction for his cooperation. As expected, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III in Alexandra, Va., on Tuesday reduced ex-Congressional aide Brett Pfeffer’s sentence from 8 years to 3 years…
By Allan Lengel For AOl News WASHINGTON — Plastic surgery is not just for the vain at heart. Recent cases show that criminals still use flesh-altering procedures to try to dodge the law. But it doesn’t always help. Just in the past two weeks, drug traffickers from Detroit and Phoenix whose fingerprints had been surgically…
D.C. nominee Ronald Machen By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The burden of filling U.S. Attorney posts around the country just got a little lighter. The White House announced Thursday that President Obama had nominated seven U.S. Attorneys including Ron Machen for D.C. and Sally Quillian Yates for the Northern District of Georgia. And the…
