By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Suspected Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was on two U.S. terror-watch database because of alleged ties to Islamic extremism, ABC News reports. The suspect, who was killed in a shootout, was added to two terrorism watch lists last year after Russia requested the FBI investigate Tsarnaev. Turns out, Russia provided…
Editorial Board Washington Post Law Enforcement agencies can’t be expected to stop every terrorist attack, any more than they can prevent every mass shooting. If, as most investigators now appear to believe, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev acted on their own with a bomb design downloaded from the Internet, their plot posed a steep challenge…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI investigated one of the Boston bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, two years ago after Russia warned about his shift toward Islamic extremism, CNN reports. Now, some members of Congress are calling for an investigation to determine how Tsarnaev managed to convince the FBI that he wasn’t a threat, CNN wrote. The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal agents investigating a Houston business that is accused of sending microelectronics that can be used for weapons and radar to Russia spied on damning phone calls, the Houston Chronicle reports. One of the most revealing phone calls that helped the FBI was a phone call between an ARC Electronics manager and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a Houston business accused of illegally exporting high-tech equipment to Russian military and intelligence agencies, the Associated Press reports. Agents executed a search warrant Wednesday at Arc Electronics Inc. in what they said was a secret military procurement network. The AP said agents were searching for microelectronics, which…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Agents with the FBI have arrested a group of individuals operating a fraud ring out of a luxury high-rise Brooklyn condo, reports the New York Post. The alleged ringleader, Kwan Miller, used a European instant-messaging service to obtain stolen credit card numbers while chatting with contacts in Russia, according to the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com From reputed Jamaican drug lord Christopher Coke to notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan has become aggressively global, indicting international figures from around the world, the New York Times reports. Since 2004, the Times’ Ben Weiser reports that the office has sent prosecutors to 25-plus…
(dea photo) By Allan Lengel For AOL News In the eyes of Russian officials, Viktor Bout is an innocent businessman being railroaded — quite contrary to the American view that he’s a cunning and dangerous arms dealer worthy of the moniker “Merchant of Death.” Clad in black T-shirt and black sweat pants, Bout briefly appeared…
