Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Bangladeshi man is accused of assembling what he thought was a 1,000 pound bomb and trying to detonate it to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Reuters reports. The FBI said Wednesday that Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis drove the devise to the bank and walked back to his…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The attorney of a Saudi man accused in a bombing plot against the U.S. didn’t present much of a defense, resting the case without any evidence or witnesses to testify, the Associated Press reports. Closing arguments in the terror case against Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari in Amarillo, Tex. are expected this morning. If…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Texas man was indicted by a federal grand jury late last week on charges he violated the civil rights of Muslims when he threatened to blow up the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro in Tennessee, according to DNJ.com. Javier Alan Correa, 24, is accused of leaving an expletive-laced voice mail at the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI Agents were summoned to Boston’s Logan Airport on Sunday as an inbound flight from London landed and a “suspicious note” mentioning a bomb was found by a flight attendent, reports Boston.com. FBI agents, police and k-9 units searched the plane along with its 200 passengers and 16 crew members when the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Transportation Security Administration is still not scanning 100 percent of the parcels on inbound international flights, and Congress wants to know why. The website NextGov.com reports that it appears TSA will miss a deadline to scan all parcels on overseas planes for the second time, and House Democrats have sent a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities say a man arrested Friday for planting an improvised explosive device under a gas pipeline in Oklahoma wasn’t connected to a terrorist group and was not a disgruntled worker, according to CNN. Daniel Wells Herriman, 40, was arrested Seminole County, Ok. Two employees of Enerfin Resources spotted the device…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s serious prison time for Farooque Ahmed, 35, of Ashburn, Va., who pleaded guilty to plotting to bomb the Washington area subway system. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce in Alexandria, Va. sentenced Ahmed, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, to 23 years in prison. Ahmed thought he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com Some people hold a grudge a long long time. That would apparently include Kim Rolene Hutterer, 47, who was charged this week in Minneapolis with threatening to kill and “slowly cut skin off” FBI agent Dean Scheidler who arrested her 20 years ago for threatening to bomb a plane in 1991,…
