By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Obama administration appears to be paving the way to prosecute 9/11 suspected terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in a military tribunal. CNN reported that the Defense Department on Tuesday refiled charges against the men so they can be prosecuted in a military court in the Guantanamo…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI agents at the Washington Field Office hardly needed anything to remind them of the devastating aftermath of 9/11, and the plane crash at the Pentagon that killed 184 folks. Nonetheless, it was nice gesture Wednesday when the office was presented with an 800-pound limestone block recovered from the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A Senate report on the Fort Hood shooting takes a sharp shot at the FBI for failing to share critical information with military about shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Associated Press reported. AP wrote that the report — to be released Thursday — also criticized the Pentagon for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has a mystery on its hands: Who the heck keeps shooting at buildings overnight in Northern Virginia? The latest came either late Monday or early Tuesday when authorities discovered that someone had shot at a U.S. Coast Guard recruiting center in Woodbridge, Va., the Washington Post reports. Authorities are…
UPDATE: 1:05 p.m. –– The Associated Press reported that that the gunman who fired shots may have a grievance against the U.S. Marine Corps. At a press conference Friday , John Perren, acting head of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, said he believes the person has a grievance against the Marine Corps, but not those…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI said Tuesday it has opened an investigation into three mysterious shootings at buildings in Northern Virginia since Oct. 17, including the Pentagon. No one has been injured. The FBI said it has confirmed that shots fired at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Va., and the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — At the Pentagon, just across the Potomac, this lunch guest was one of the more unusual ones. The Pentagon confirmed that radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born al Qaeda operative now on a U.S. kill-or-capture list, had lunch at the Pentagon after the Sept. 11, attacks as part…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Simply put: This is something you don’t want to hear: The Associated Press reports that the guns used in the recent Pentagon shooting on March 4 and the Las Vegas U.S. District Courthouse on Jan. 4 came from the Memphis police and court system. The AP reported that both…
