By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. drones continue to pick off targets in Pakistan. CNN reports that a drone killed al Qaeda’s number 2 guy — Abu Yahya al-Libi. CNN reported that the hit was one of the most significant hits since the killing of Osama Bin Laden. “There is no one who even comes close…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com The U.S. led-NATO forces chalked up a major score in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda’s second-highest Afghan leader, Sakhr al-Taifi, was killed by a NATO airstrike in eastern Kunar province on Sunday, reports the AP. Al-Taifi, also known as Mushtaq and Nasim, commanded foreign insurgents in Afghanistan and directed attacks against NATO and Afghan…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In case you hadn’t notice, NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is no shrinking violet. So one day after FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III testified before Congress that he hadn’t bothered to call Kelly about the latest al Qaeda/ underwear bomber plot, Kelly spoke up. FBI agents waited a week to…
By NBC News and msnbc.com staff The CIA foiled a plot by al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen to bomb a U.S.-bound airliner around the one-year anniversary of the killing of its former leader Osama bin Laden, senior U.S. officials told NBC News. Officials said the plot involved a bomb with a design that upgraded the underwear…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com In the war on terror, success can sometimes bring retaliation. Global terrorist Fahd al-Quso, who had links to the USS Cole bombing, was killed in Yemen Sunday, according to Yemeni officials and confirmed by al-Qaeda, reports USA Today. A CIA drone strike killed the top al-Qaeda leader, on the FBI Most-Wanted list…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com U.S. Navy SEALS took out the worlds’ foremost terrorist when they killed Osama bin Laden one year ago. But they also scored the largest batch of senior terrorist material in history, and Thursday we saw the release of 17 of those letters, portraying al Qaeda as an organization on the edge. The…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Authorities called it one of the most serious terrorist plots against America since 9/11. On Tuesday, 28-year-old Adis Medunjanin of Queens paid for that ambitious plot. Medunjanin was convicted on terror charges on Tuesday in New York fed court after a 4-week trial exposed the depth of his plots with former high…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The graphic is errie. The New York Daily News reports that the FBI and NYPD are trying to find the source of a a graphic posted on terrorism websites that says: “Al Qaeda coming soon again in New York.” The Daily News reported that authorities are trying to determine…
