By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sulaiman Abu Ghayth, the son-in-law of Usama bin Laden, and a senior member of al Qaeda, was convicted Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan on three counts, including conspiracy to kill Americans. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement: “This verdict is a major milestone in the government’s unrelenting…
By Jim Gilmore The Washington Times Our country is currently in a struggle between the need to protect our citizens from terrorism and the need to protect the civil liberties of our citizens. How can we do both while not sacrificing either? During my five years as chairman of the National Commission on Homeland Security,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI had direct contact with Osama bin Laden in 1993 and learned that he was trying to finance terrorist attacks inside the U.S., according to the Washington Times. The information about the al Qaeda leader quietly emerged from an employment dispute case involving an FBI agent in 2010 and escaped the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the FBI has been swamped cracking down on dangers from extremists. This year was no exception. Here is some of the FBI’s top terror cases of 2013: Airport bomb plot: A 58-year-old man was charged earlier this month with attempting to explode a car bomb at…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It hasn’t been long since the FBI’s primary focus was putting away bank robbers, kidnappers and gang members. That focus has dramatically shifted in the post-9/11 era, creating a new generation of counterterrorism experts who know the ins and outs of al Qaeda and Hezbollah, Newsweek reports. Most of the counterterrorism experts…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A U.S. citizen claims in a lawsuit filed by the federal government that he was held for four months, endured harsh interrogation and was later released after it was discovered he had done nothing wrong, the Reason reports. Amir Meshal is represented by he ACLU, which contends its client was unfairly…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is worried that Americans are becoming radicalized by al-Qaeda-linked militant groups while fighting in the Syrian civil war, the Associated Press reports. Some estimates place the number of Americans involved in the conflict at a couple dozen. Feds have already arrested at least three Americans this year for planning to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Few people know al Qaeda and its former leader Osama Bin Laden quite like Jack Cloonan. Radio host Steve Leser interviewed Cloonan, the senior case agent in the FBI Bin Laden Squad, on Blog Talk Radio. Five years before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Cloonan was working on intelligence about the terrorist…
