Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two men accused of plotting to blow up a major commuter rail between Toronto and the U.S. were arrested Monday, Newsday reports. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the attack involved al-Qaida “elements” in Iran but did not pose imminent danger, Newsday wrote. The FBI helped investigate. Police said the attack was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Secret Service on Thursday issued a statement, calling “inaccurate” a story in The Atlantic entitled “How the Secret Service Almost Shot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.” Ed Donovan, a Secret Service spokesman, stated: “In September of 2007, one of our personnel assigned to the Iranian presidential protective detail accidentally discharged one round from…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In a chilling close call in September 2006, a Secret Service agent inadvertently fired his shotgun as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was loading a motorcade, The Atlantic reports. The Secret Service called the report inaccurate. The Atlantic reported that the agent was adjusting a shotgun on a Suburban when the gun went…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Have we heard this before? The Associated Press reports that Iran’s foreign minister says his country is prepared to help find out what happened to retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished six years ago while traveling to the Iranian island of Kish. Iran has indicated in the past that Levinson…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Iran said Tuesday it has no information on the whereabouts of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished in the country nearly six years ago, Naharnet reports. “We have announced that we do not have any information regarding the issue,” foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanaparast told reporters in his weekly briefing. The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Almost six years has passed since Christine Levinson saw her husband, a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran in 2007. After all these years, Levinson still believes her husband, Robert Levinson, a private investigator, is alive. Levinson is urging the U.S. government to increase pressure on Iran, which federal authorities believe…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Nothing yet has worked for the family of a former FBI agent missing since traveling to Iran five years ago. So the family of 64-year-old Bob Levinson, with the help of the FBI, rented billboards in Times Square and subway entrances near the United Nations with an urgent plea to the visiting…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The wife of a former FBI agent missing for five years traveled to New York to urge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to help find her husband, NBC 4 New York reports. Bob Levinson, 64, traveled to the Iranian island of Kish on March 8, 2007, and never returned. His wife, Christine Levinson,…
