By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s top counterterrorism official left no room for ambiguity about the frustrating battle to stop ISIS’ aggressive social media campaign: “We are losing the battle,” ABC News reports. The terror group “has proven dangerously competent like no other group before it at employing [online] tools for its nefarious strategy,” the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI on Wednesday arrested three Brooklyn men accused of planning to join ISIS and commit acts of terrorism, the bureau announced Wednesday. If their plans with ISIS didn’t work out, two of them intended to launch terror attacks in New York, the federal government alleged in a complaint unsealed in…
The FBI on Wednesday arrested three Brooklyn men accused of planning to join ISIS and commit acts of terrorism, the bureau announced Wednesday. If their plans with ISIS didn’t work out, two of them intended to launch terror attacks in New York, the federal government alleged in a complaint unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As ISIS turns more to social media to recruit future terrorists, the Justice Department made clear that it would prosecute people who help the extremists spread the message, The Daily Beast reports. What remains unclear is where the government where draw the line between free speech and support of a terrorist…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Obama administration has done away with the term “radical Islam.” President Obama and others in his administration refused to use the term during a White House summit on combating what they preferred to call “violent extremism,” The Washington Times reports. On Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson defended the administration’s…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The terrorist group, ISIS, is recruiting teenagers in the U.S. as part of a broadening campaign of violence, a top FBI official told CNN. Michael Steinbach, head of the FBI’s counterterrorist division, said the teenagers are as young as 15. He said he “can’t speak with 100% certainty that individuals of…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI bulletin about ISIS encouraging attacks on law enforcement prompted the New York City Police Department to take extra steps to protect its officers, Fox News reports. “Strike their police, security and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents,” the video, released on Twitter by ISIS spokesman Abu Mohammad…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating an anonymous threat that ISIS plans to blow up the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge over the Mississippi River sthis month, FOX13 News reports. The FBI sent a letter of warning to local law enforcement. “According to an anonymous complainant, as of December 2014, ISIS instructed an ISIS member, a…
