By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Agent James W. McJunkin is taking over the ever important spot at headquarters as assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division at headquarters. He moves up from his post as one of the division’s deputy assistant directors. “Jim has extensive experience and a record of success in managing counterterrorism…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Pakistani neuroscientist, who disrupted her New York trial with multiple outbursts, was convicted Wednesday of attempted murder for trying to kill American soldiers and F.B.I. agents in Afghanistan, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Authorities charged that Aafia Siddiqui, 37, of grabbing grabbed an M4 rifle in an Afghanistan police station…
By Jeff Stein Spy Talk WASHINGTON — Which is it now — imminent terrorist threat, or no threat? Certain or uncertain? Only last month U.S. intelligence officials were saying the Nigerian underwear bomber slipped through their nets because they didn’t think al Qaeda could or would mount another attack here. Yesterday, they warned that a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The allegation came on a tissue. The Associated Press is reporting that the five Washington, D.C. area men suspected of terrorism, who are being held in Pakistan, scribbled allegations on a tissue that they were subjected to electric shocks and other torture by the FBI and Pakistani police. The AP reported…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Criminal proceedings are moving forward in the case against Mississippi agent Philip Halbert Neilson, who is accused of failing to disclose his financial interest in a leased FBI building in Oxford, Miss. Neilson pleaded not guilty Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Allan Alexander in Oxford, the Associated Press reported. A March…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal agents shot a Muslim imam 21 times and then handcuffed him during an October FBI raid in Dearborn, a Detroit suburb, a yet to be released autopsy report concluded, according to the Detroit Free Press. Free Press reporter Ben Schmitt, who attributed the information to a “person familiar with the…
By Allan Lengel For Aol News Six bank robberies and five months later, the FBI in San Diego is still hunting for a mystery man in his 60s or 70s who’s been famously dubbed the “Geezer Bandit.” His latest stickup came on Wednesday at the San Diego National Bank around 5:50 p.m. According to the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The badly burned underwear bomber told authorities as he was led away on Christmas Day that there was a second bomb aboard the Northwest plane that have arrived from Amsterdam, when in fact there was not, the Associated Press reported. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab made incriminating statements to Customs officials…
