By Jerry Markon Washington Post WASHINGTON — In the middle of the Pakistani night, near the border with Afghanistan, a team of FBI agents dressed in native garb descended on a hotel room. One of those agents, Sean M. Joyce, kicked in the door, tackled a screaming Pakistani man and threw him to the ground….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III visited Pakistan Wednesday, the country where Osama bin Laden took refuge and was killed by the American military in May, the Associated Press reported. The visit comes as tension mounts over the U.S. demands that Pakistan crack down on Afghan militants hiding out in Pakistan,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For the second time in the less than two months, the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List has another opening. In May, the U.S. gunned down Top Ten fugitive Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. Then on Wednesday evening, after a 16-year search, FBI agents in Santa Monica, Calif., arrested Top Ten fugitive…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Three weeks after Osama bin Laden was killed, and Americans accused Pakistan of knowing of his whereabouts, damaging evidence against Pakistan’s intelligence agency has surfaced. The New York Times reports that the government’s leading witness in a federal trial in downtown Chicago involving the Mumbai, India attacks in 2008 implicated the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The sentimental guy that he was, Osama bin Laden wanted to commemorate the upcoming 10th anniversary of 9/11 with a plot to derail a U.S. train, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that materials seized during the raid at the Pakistan compound showed bin Laden was scheming since last…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Materials seized during the raid in Pakistan over the weekend may provide insights into al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden — and then some. USA Today reports that some materials seized during the Pakistan raid suggests bin Laden still had a hand in providing strategic guidance terrorists. The paper…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Sometimes friends aren’t always real friends. The investigative website ProPublica reports that the feds in Chicago on Monday indicted four suspected masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Two of those folks have been linked to Pakistan’s security forces, who supposed to be helping out the U.S. in the fight…
By Peter Finn Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — On Sept. 11, 2001, the core of al-Qaeda was concentrated in a single city: Karachi, Pakistan. At a hospital, the accused mastermind of the bombing of the USS Cole was recovering from a tonsillectomy. Nearby, the alleged organizer of the 2002 bombing in Bali, Indonesia, was…
