By Steve Neavling A Pakistani citizen living in Canada has been charged with a federal crime for allegedly plotting an attack on a Jewish center in New York City on or around Oct. 7 in support of the Islamic State group, prosecutors announced Friday. Authorities say the suspect chose Oct. 7 because it marked the…
By Allan Lengel As Jewish organizations express concern about the growing number of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S., the FBI issued a warning Thursday that it was aware of credible threats against synagogues in New Jersey. “We are taking a proactive measure with this warning while investigative processes are carried out,” the FBI tweeted. “The…
Some white supremacist groups are encouraging members to weaponize the coronavirus by spreading it to cops and Jews, the FBI has alerted local police.
The FBI helped locate and arrest the suspect accused of threatening Jewish organizations across the U.S. and other parts of the world.
By Anne Applebaum Washington Post The Polish ambassador to Washington has protested, the Polish president has protested, the speaker of the Polish parliament (to whom I am married) has protested — and the U.S. ambassador to Warsaw has apologized profusely. Why? Because James Comey, the director of the FBI, in a speech that was reprinted in The Post arguing for more Holocaust education,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT –– In a federal courtroom in downtown Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the man better known as the “Underwear Bomber”, was sentenced Thursday afternoon to life in prison for trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day in 2009. Rail thin and clad in a white t-shirt and beige…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Rep. Steve Rothman is calling on the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office to pool its resources and solve a rash of crimes targeting New Jersey synagogues. The fourth hate crime targeting a Jewish synagogue in New Jersey over the past month occurred on Wednesday when Congregation Beth El, in Rutherford,…
