Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Somali-American who claimed the FBI manipulated him to detonate what he thought was a bomb at a Christmas tree ceremony in Portland in 2010 was found guilty Thursday of terrorism-related charges, the Associated Press reports. The Mohamed Mohamud, 21, who did not testify, will be sentenced May 14. Prosecutors were able…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s Minneapolis office is investigating claims that two agents pressured a Somali man to work as an informant in the Somali community, the Pioneer Press reports. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights group, requested the probe last week. The man claims the agents were “intimidating and threatening” him in…
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 Since the Sept. 11, 2011 attacks, the FBI has blundered the war on terrorism, manufacturing cases to create the appearance that the country is safer, Trevor Aaronson alleges in his new book, “The Terror Factor: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism.” The book claims the FBI has arrested 500 so-called terrorists…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A teenager on trial for trying to blow up what he thought was a bomb at an event in Portland, Oregon was “conflicted and manipulable,” the FBI acknowledged in an early assessment of the suspect, the Associated Press reports. Mohamed Mohamud’s attorney has been trying to paint the suspect as a naive,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The defense attorney for a man accused of plotting to bomb a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Oregon said his client was coerced by over-enthusiastic undercover FBI agents who were bent on getting a terrorism arrest, the AP reports. The trial continued Thursday in the case of Mohamed Mohamud, who thought he was…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Mohamed Mohamud was a naive teenager manipulated by the FBI to detonate what he thought was a real bomb at a Christmas tree-lighting event in Oregon, his defense attorney argued in the terrorism case Wednesday, the AP reported. The FBI agent who posed as an al-Qaida terrorist admitted during cross-examination that Mohamud…
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,…
