Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A government watchdog group is suing the FBI to force the release details of its contacts with American-Muslim groups that urged the the bureau to stop using certain counter-terrorism materials for agents that they deemed offensive, the Washington Examiner reports. At issue is a Feb. 8, 2012, meeting between Muslim organizations FBI…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Call it the sign of the times. The FBI won’t let 26-year-old Muslim American Yahya Wehelie fly home to Virginia from the Middle East, the New York Times reports. Wehelie spent 18 months in Yemen. In May, he was heading home to Virginia and was changing planes in Cairo when the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Not everyone is sounding the sirens about the radicalization of American Muslims. A new study released by Duke University and the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill says the threat has been overstated, the Associated Press reported. The study identified 139 American Muslims accused of terrorist plots or violence…
