By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI announced Monday night that it had busted four men -, including one who served in the Air Force — who allegedly plotted to join Qaeda and the Taliban to commit “violent jihad” and bomb military bases and government facilities, the Los Angeles Times reported. The four men had ties…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Minneapolis man accused of conspiring to send Americans to a terrorist group, al-Shabab, in Somalia was convicted on five terrorism-related counts Thursday, the Associated Press reports. Mahamud Said Omar, 46, faces up to life in prison for funding al-Shabab and sending young recruits to Somalia once they were indoctrinated in Minneapolis….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Bangladeshi man is accused of assembling what he thought was a 1,000 pound bomb and trying to detonate it to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Reuters reports. The FBI said Wednesday that Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis drove the devise to the bank and walked back to his…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Why would anyone be snapping photos of a storm brewing in Houston, Texas? The FBI was concerned enough to question photographer Michael Galindo about the Sept. 13 pictures near a refinery, reports Opposing Views. Galindo said the answer was simple enough: He was volunteering for the National Weather Service. After someone at…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward to help locate a Massachusetts man who was training how to kill Americans soldiers while visiting Pakistan and Yemen, the bureau announced Wednesday. The FBI believes Ahmad Abousamra may be living in Syria with his wife, at least a daughter and extended family. Abousamra allegedly…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Depending on whom you ask, Mahamud Said Omar is either a well-connected member of an Islamist terror group or he’s mental ill and incapable of being an integral part of a terrorism recruiting network, the Star Tribune reports. Today the 46-year-old Somali man who immigrated to Minnesota in 1993 is expected to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A year-long investigation into a Somali terror group’s efforts to recruit Americans may be gathering steam in Minnesota, the Associated Press reports. The FBI has been focusing on Minnesota because it’s home to the largest Somali population in the U.S., according to the AP. Fueling fears that al-Shabab is succeeding in its…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors dismissed claims from the attorney of an Illinois teen Thursday that undercover FBI agents entrapped his client, the Chicago Tribune reports. Although Ahmed Daoud pulled the trigger on what he thought was a car bomb outside a Chicago bar, he only did so because he was manipulated by undercover FBI…
