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 Charges have been dropped against the Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-tainted letters to President Obama and other public officials, NBC News reports. “I respect President Obama and love my country. I would never do anything to pose a threat to him or any other U.S. official,” Paul Kevin Curtis said at a news…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI released photos today of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, urging the public to help track down the men. Richard DesLauriers, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston office, said one of the suspects appeared to drop a black backpack near twin explosions that killed three and injured…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A jury Monday convicted a New York man of lying to the FBI about plans to train with terrorists like the Taliban or al-Qaida, the Associated Press reports. Abdel Hameed Shehadeh now faces up to 21 years in prison when sentenced. Shehadeh’s friends testified that he spoke of wanting to die while…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hundreds of federal agents used sophisticated surveillance to investigate a 25-year-old terrorism suspect in Tampa Bay, ABC Action News reports. Sami Osmakac, who is accused of plotting to blow up several locations in Tampa Bay, was arrested in January 2012 and is awaiting trial. For more than a year before the arrest,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Depending on whom you believe, Matthew Aaron Llaneza was either bent on committing terrorism in the name of Allah or was psychotic and easily manipulated by the FBI, the Mercury News reports. The 28-year-old San Jose is accused of trying to detonate what turned out to be a phony bomb Friday in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A month before Sami Samir Hassoun placed what he thought was a bomb near Wrigley Field in Chicago in 2010, the FBI worried the undercover informant had entrapped the suspect and warned the informant to back off, the Associated Press reports. The AP wrote that Hassoun’s defense attorney disclosed the information in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Somali-American who claimed the FBI manipulated him to detonate what he thought was a bomb at a Christmas tree ceremony in Portland in 2010 was found guilty Thursday of terrorism-related charges, the Associated Press reports. The Mohamed Mohamud, 21, who did not testify, will be sentenced May 14. Prosecutors were able…
