Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Department of Homeland Security is releasing dead bacteria into Boston’s Subway System to test its new bio-terror sensing detector, the Business Insider reports. Scientists will release Bacillus subtilis, a non-toxic bacterium found in soil, water, air and decomposing plant matter, as part of a simulated biological weapon attack. It can’t cause…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has foiled terrorist attacks and saved lives using so-called trip wires, Dr. Vahid Majidi, the former assistant FBI director in charge of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, tells Newsmax. Ronald Kessler writes: The wires are designed to tip off the FBI of potential terrorists by identifying people who buy…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — He was accused of being part of terrorist cell in Detroit in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. He spent about 15 months in the Wayne County Jail, often in isolation. He was occasionally strip searched. And then, he was acquitted of all charges. Now, after…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of the country’s largest ports is not adequately prepared to fend off terrorists, thieves and other criminals, a former Homeland Security agent said, the New York Post reports. Terrorists “are looking for a weakness, and you’re standing in one of them right now,” Adam Conti, 46, told The Post. “This place…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Despite strong evidence that U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan wanted to kill civilians and supported suicide bombings before he killed 13 people in the 2009 attack on Fort Hood, Texas, the FBI never launched an investigation because of concerns over political correctness, The Associated Press reports, citing a lawmakers briefed on a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The attorney of a Saudi man accused in a bombing plot against the U.S. didn’t present much of a defense, resting the case without any evidence or witnesses to testify, the Associated Press reports. Closing arguments in the terror case against Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari in Amarillo, Tex. are expected this morning. If…
By Christopher Dickey Newsweek There’d been a crucial break in one of Manhattan’s most infamous unsolved murders. One after another, reports from NYPD detectives popped up on the New York City police commissioner’s BlackBerry. Ray Kelly was on a quick work trip to London, and here, by the Thames in the predawn hours of May…
The final of three installments on an immigrant who was wrongly convicted of terrorism in Detroit and how he went on to live the American dream. In case you missed the first two articles of this series, you can find those here, Terrorism and the American Dream: Part I Terrorism and the American Dream:…
