By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — They may not have fit the stereotype of Hollywood, but a federal jury in Norfolk, Va., nonetheless convicted five men from Somalia of engaging in piracy for their attack in April on the USS Nicholas, authorities said. It was believed to be the first piracy trial conviction in the…
By Zack Cohen ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s being satirically dubbed the“war on toner,” a phrase that reflects experts’ skepticism about the U.S. response to al Qaeda’s failed bid to blow up U.S. bound planes with explosive-packed ink cartridges. In other words, the response is hardly sufficient, some experts insist. “In typical TSA fashion [the measures]…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. moved Monday to clamp down on the vulnerable area of cargo shipments from abroad. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the banning of “high risk” cargo shipments and a ban on shipments from Yemen and Somalia. “Following the thwarted terrorist plot last week to conceal and ship…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com From our nation’s heartland comes the latest allegation of people supporting al Qaeda with cash. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in St. Louis unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging three men including a cab driver from St. Louis with conspiring to fund al Shabaab, a terrorist group in Somalia linked to al Qaeda,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A Northern Virginia man who found little humor in the animated show “South Park”, and wished death to its creators on the Internet, is scheduled to plead guilty to supporting Somali terrorists, the Washington Post reports. The paper reports that Zachary Adam Chesser, 20, of Bristow, Va., will plead…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Homegrown terrorists just keep popping up. The FBI on Tuesday night arrested a 26-year-old Chicago man, Shaker Masri, an American citizen, who allegedly had plans to travel to Somalia to fight with a terrorist group linked to al Qaeda and become a suicide bomber, authorities said. Masri, who lived in the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A 20-year-old Virginia man, who made threats against the TV show “South Park”, was arrested Wednesday on charges of providing material support to al Shabaab, a terrorist organization in Somalia with links to al Qaeda, authorities said. Zachary Adam Chesser, 20, of Fairfax County, Va., who according to a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI had been tracking two suspected New Jersey jihadists since 2006 after getting a tip on its website, the Newark Star-Ledger reported. “Every time they access the internet, all they look for is all those terrorist videos about the Islam holly war and where they kill U.S. soldiers and other…
