By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It will always be a line hard to draw, between protecting the nation from another terrorist attack and reaching too far in the name of preemption. The American Civil Liberties Union sees the latter, though, and on Thursday said the FBI is using extensive community outreach among Muslims to gather intelligence…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Here’s a good reminder for jilted lovers who feel the great need for revenge: DON’T ever Do this. The New York Daily News reports that a woman called the United Airlines shortly before her ex-boyfriend boarded an international flight on Sept. 25 from Las Vegas to Paris and suggested he was…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com David Coleman Headley, a lead planner of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, who looked Western and had a U.S. passport, is the focus of a special on Tuesday at 9 p.m. on PBS’s Frontline called “A Perfect Terrorist.” The son of a Pakistani father and an American mother, Headley was chosen…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Did police, district attorneys and Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg inflate the importance of a recent terror suspect arrest? A New York magazine report suggests that was possibility. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., and Mayor Bloomberg announced the arrest of Jose Pimentel at a city hall news…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Barry Walter Bojul’s trip to Yemen has been detoured, possibly by as much as 20 years in a federal prison. The 30-year-old Texan’s conviction in a Houston federal court on Monday was the culmination of an investigation that began in 2009 by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. He was convicted…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com After all the efforts by law enforcement to forge a lasting cooperation — particularly in the post-9/11 era — some in the Muslim community in America remain skeptical. The Associated Press reports Muslim groups in New York are discouraging people from going to the New York police with concerns about terrorism, and…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Expressing deep unease about the UK’s restricting the scope of anti-terrorism “stop and search” powers, the U.S, plans to send about 1,000 security agents to the 2012 London Olympics, which will include a contingent of about 500 FBI agent, reports Adelaide Now. “We are not equal partners in this,” said an unnamed…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com When in doubt, play the crazy card. A lawyer for Rezwan Ferdaus, the 26-year-old Muslim American arrested in September for plotting to fly explosive-packed remote control planes into the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, suggested in court on Friday that the FBI ignored signs of the defendant’s mental illness during their investigation…
