Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A political consultant who was the subject of a nationwide search had the necessary material for an improvised bomb in his San Francisco apartment. The Los Angeles Times reports that the FBI found explosive powder, wires for a detonator, ball bearings and a motor in Ryan Chamberlain’s apartment. What’s unclear is what…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A homegrown terror plot in California was so fanciful and bizarre that few people believe the California suspect could have pulled it off. Nevertheless, a judge sentenced Aaron Llaneza to 15 years in prison Thursday for trying to blow up a Bank of America in Oakland with a fake bomb, which investigators…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Authorities are dumbfounded after more dry ice explosions at a Los Angeles Airport on Monday night, the Los Angeles Times reports. Investigators are trying to determine how someone placed four dry ice bombs – two of which detonated – at restricted areas. The devices apparently were found outside the terminal near planes, according…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A teenager accused of trying to bomb a downtown Chicago bar also tried to get an undercover FBI agent killed, the Associated Press reports. From his jail cell, Adel Daoud is accused of plotting to have someone kill an FBI agent who played a role in a sting that led to this…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Everything about it looked real. It even spooked authorities, who believed at first they may have found an improvised explosive device on a bus that serves people with disabilities in St. Louis, KCTV 5 News reports. Turns out, the device was fake but was made to look real to scare people. “The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The father of a young man charged with terrorism testified during his son’s trial Monday that his son was brainwashed and manipulated by the FBI, the Associated Press reports. Osma Barre, the father of Oregon terrorism suspect Mohamed Mohamud, was the first witness for a defense that plans to portray Mohamud as…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Before pulling the switch on what he thought was a bomb at a tree-lighting event in Portland, Mohamed Mohamud posed before a camera wearing a camouflage jacket and red scarf, saying his goodbyes, the Oregonian reports. The video was shown during the second day of testimony in the trial of Mohamud,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Somali-born man charged with pulling the trigger on what he thought was a bomb at a Christmas tree event in Portland, Ore., first attracted attention from authorities by discussing martyrdom in email exchanges with Islamist extremists, according to opening testimony Monday in the trial, Reuters reports. Supervisor of the FBI…
