By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI believes three teenage girls from suburban Denver were headed to Syria to join Islamic State militants in Syria. The Associated Press reports that two sisters, ages 17 and 15, and their friend, age 16, were stopped at the Frankfurt, Germany en route to Turkey and then Syria. The sisters…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Obama administration is denying claims by a Republican Congressman that at least 10 ISIS fighters were caught trying to cross the Mexican border in Texas, the Daily Mail reports. Rep. Duncan Hunter said Tuesday that the Border Patrol told him that the extremists were captured at the border. Homeland Security…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI arrested a 19-year-old man at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport as he was trying to leave the country to join Islamic State, the Wall Street Journal reports. Mohammed Hamzah Khan was boarding a plane to Vienna, where he was going to catch a flight to Istansbul, according to the FBI…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com American journalist Theo Curtis said he might not be alive if not for the FBI. FBI agents in the Washington D.C. field office had been working on getting Curtis released from Syria, where he had been held by an Islamist group, the Washington Post reports. The FBI “deserves some credit for…
