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Palestinian Pleads to Plotting to Buy Stolen Military Weapons in FBI Sting
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Palestinian man pleaded guilty Thursday in Miami in a plot to acquire and transport stolen military weapons in what turned out to be an FBI sting. Abdalaziz Aziz Hamayel, 23, of the West Bank, pleaded guilty to trying to buy from an undercover agent what he thought were stolen M-16s,…
Feds Seize Paintings Stolen By Nazis in Poland
By Allan Lengel For AOL News Federal authorities have seized two Julian Falat paintings stolen by the Nazis during World War II from New York auction houses, with the hope of returning the national treasures to the Polish government. The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that it had filed a civil forfeiture complaint on Wednesday…
al Qaeda Planning Holiday Attacks in U.S. and Europe, Authorities Say
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Last year, al Qaeda supposedly sent the “Underwear Bomber” on a plane Christmas Day. This year? The Associated Press reports that captured insurgents told Iraqi authorities that al Qaeda is planning suicide attacks in the U.S. and Europe during the holiday season. AP reported that a senior US intelligence…
FBI Helping Long Island Police in Possible Serial Killer Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is assisting police in Long Island into what may end up being a serial killer case. Four female bodies have been found in recent days on a Long Island Beach. FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said in a statement Wednesday that the bureau “has offered assistance in the case. This…
LA Times Editorial: Stings Can Be Legitimate Tool in Terrorism
By The Los Angeles Times Editorial Page From Abscam to the arrest of former Washington Mayor Marion Barry on drug charges, sting operations have brought accusations that the government was entrapping its targets. This perennial complaint has acquired a new sensitivity with charges that the FBI, as part of its anti-terrorism activities, is inducing Muslims…
Dallas FBI Agent Gets Probation for Hiring Illegal Aliens for Her Deli
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Dallas FBI agent was sentenced Wednesday to two years probation and ordered to pay a $18,000 fine for unlawfully employing illegal immigrants at a deli she owned in suburban Dallas, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Ann Cox, who was fired in the summer after the U.S. Attorney’s Office filed charges, …
FBI Agent Who Threatened to Kill Wife and Head of Dallas FBI Pleads Guilty
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former FBI Dallas FBI agent pleaded guilty Wednesday in a case in which he was charged with plotting to kill his estranged wife and his boss, the head of the Dallas FBI, Robert Casey Jr., the Dallas Morning News reported. Carlos Ortiz Jr., 49, pleaded to retaliating against a federal…
Feds Add International Terrorism Charge Against Underwear Bomber
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds have added a new international terrorism charge in a superseding indictment filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit against the Christmas Day “Underwear Bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Under the amended indictment, Abdulmutallab is now charged with conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries. That charge…