Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The defense attorney for a man accused of plotting to bomb a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Oregon said his client was coerced by over-enthusiastic undercover FBI agents who were bent on getting a terrorism arrest, the AP reports. The trial continued Thursday in the case of Mohamed Mohamud, who thought he was…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Mohamed Mohamud was a naive teenager manipulated by the FBI to detonate what he thought was a real bomb at a Christmas tree-lighting event in Oregon, his defense attorney argued in the terrorism case Wednesday, the AP reported. The FBI agent who posed as an al-Qaida terrorist admitted during cross-examination that Mohamud…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Tunisian court released a leading suspect in the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, without telling the FBI, Fox News reports. Before the release of Ali Ani al-Harzi, the FBI interviewed the terrorism suspect last month for about two hours, Fox News wrote. The interrogation was not sufficient to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Before pulling the switch on what he thought was a bomb at a tree-lighting event in Portland, Mohamed Mohamud posed before a camera wearing a camouflage jacket and red scarf, saying his goodbyes, the Oregonian reports. The video was shown during the second day of testimony in the trial of Mohamud,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Somali-born man charged with pulling the trigger on what he thought was a bomb at a Christmas tree event in Portland, Ore., first attracted attention from authorities by discussing martyrdom in email exchanges with Islamist extremists, according to opening testimony Monday in the trial, Reuters reports. Supervisor of the FBI…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com At least three of the hijackers on Sept. 11, 2011, received advance airline tickets from an American-born Muslim cleric killed in 2011 by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, Fox News reports, citing newly released FBI records. The cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, likely purchased the tickets within days of the terrorist attacks, likely…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The threat of terrorism always looms, particularly since Sept. 11, 2001. The FBI, which can take some credit for averting some potential terrorist attacks, has put together a list of of some of the top terrorist cases of 2012. The following was posted on the FBI website. Alabama men arrested on…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit During my visits to Israel, the idea of security was never far off. At the train station, at the bus stop, I went through a metal detector. An armed guard checked through packages and asked if I was carrying a gun. After Sept. 11, 2001, I thought the U.S. would…
