By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI warned Garland police that one of the two gunmen who would open fire outside a cartoon contest to draw Prophet Muhammad in Texas may be targeting the event just hours before the shooting, The New York Times reports. “We developed information just hours before the event that Simpson might…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of the gunmen behind the shooting at a Texas cartoon contest that featured images of Prophet Muhammad strongly hinted on Twitter that he was about to get violent about 20 minutes before opening fire, the Chicago Tribune reports. “May Allah accept us as mujahideen,” or holy warriors, he tweeted. One…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating what prompted two men to open fire outside a contest for Prophet Mohamed cartoons in a Dallas suburb. The man were fatally shot by police, Sunday night, CNN reports. Garland Police said the men approached the Culwell Event Center in North Garland and opened fire. A security…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some cartoons simply aren’t funny. The Secret Service and FBI are investigating who faxed a racially charged cartoon to the White House and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex), the Houston Chronicle reported. The cartoon depicted nooses and lynching posts, the paper reported. The headline included a racial epithet and the cartoon…
