Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A suburban Chicago terrorism suspect is expected to be charged today with trying to solicit the murder of an FBI agent, the Associated Press reports. Adel Daoud, who is accused of attempting to ignite what he thought was a car bomb outside of a downtown Chicago bar, is expected to plead not…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF has jumped in to investigate the mysterious car comb that seriously injured an attorney and his two children in Monroe, Mi., Tuesday night, the Detroit Free Press reported. The Free Press reported that the Volvo station wagon was traveling on East Elm Avenue, near the ramp to I-75, at 5:41…
By Jackson Diehl Washington Post Deputy Editorial Page Writer WASHINGTON — Last month, 303 people were murdered in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, which lies alongside El Paso. This month, the dead include three men killed by a sophisticated, remote-controlled car bomb — the first in Mexico’s drug wars. In a city of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com As if the drug war in Mexico wasn’t violent enough. Now, the drug dealers, for the first time, have resorted to a car bomb in Mexico in the drug war, the El Paso Times and the Associated Press reported. Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz of Ciudad Juarez said traffickers set a deadly…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After making an arrest late Monday night in the New York car bomb case, the FBI continued to investigate whether other people or an organization, possibly overseas, were involved. “The investigation remains very much ongoing, and the dedicated agents, detectives, and prosecutors on this case will continue to follow every lead…
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Investigators Find NY Bomb Plot May Have Foreign Ties (AOL News) Car Used in Car Bomb Had Been Sold in Cash Deal (NY Times)
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com New York law enforcement investigators on Sunday were looking at a surveillance tape that showed a white man in his 40s who appeared to be walking away from the area where a car bomb was placed Saturday evening in Times Square, looking over his shoulder and removing a layer of clothing,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI and New York police were trying to find out Sunday who left a Nissan Pathfinder with a crude bomb inside in Times Square Saturday night that prompted the evacuation of parts of the city on a busy Saturday night. FBI agent Richard Kolko, a spokesman for the FBI in…
