By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It’s not everyday that the TSA finds a training kit for military-improvised explosive devices packed into luggage. But that’s exactly what TSA bag handlers discovered in a checked bag at the Honolulu airport. The items included detonators, blasting caps, detonating cord and C-4, the Henry Daily Herald reports. The TSA evacuated…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A political consultant who was the subject of a nationwide search had the necessary material for an improvised bomb in his San Francisco apartment. The Los Angeles Times reports that the FBI found explosive powder, wires for a detonator, ball bearings and a motor in Ryan Chamberlain’s apartment. What’s unclear is what…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Everything about it looked real. It even spooked authorities, who believed at first they may have found an improvised explosive device on a bus that serves people with disabilities in St. Louis, KCTV 5 News reports. Turns out, the device was fake but was made to look real to scare people. “The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A little-known FBI crime lab near Washington played a critical role in convicting two men who helped target American soldiers in Iraq with improvised exploding devices, the Los Angeles Times reports. Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammad pleaded guilty to smuggling Stinger surface-to-air missiles and money to terrorists in Iraq from…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It was an IED that did it for Povas Miknaitis. After an initial deployment to Iraq in 2008, he was later sent to Afghanistan as a Marine rifleman. In Afghanistan, an IED blast sent shrapnel flying; some hit his arm and abdomen; larger pieces struck his face, shattering his jaw and…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Two hours outside of Bangkok, Byron San Marco, an ATF special agent, explodes a hidden bomb slung over the back seat of a motor bike, according to a report by Time magazine. San Marco and his ATF team will blow up two more improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at the US-funded Tactical…
