By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a Florida man’s airplane outburst that caused a Southwest Airlines flight to make an emergency landing in Texas on Tuesday. It was a complete shock to Ali Reza Shahsavari’s family when news came that the 29-year-old was arrested on charges of interfering with a flight crew, according…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Justice Department on Tuesday afternoon announced that FBI and DEA agents had foiled a plot linked to the Iranian government to kill the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Manssor Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old Iranian-American, and Gholam Shakuri, an Iran-based member of Iran’s Qods Force– a unit of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Khalafan Khamis Mohammed, convicted of a 1998 terrorist strike on the US Embassy in Tanzania, won the right to sue the federal government over tight restrictions they placed on his letter-writing and visitor privileges, according to the Associated Press. Mohammed is serving a life sentence at the federal Supermax prison in southern…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com NPR has some new coverage of the anti-Muslim bias in FBI training. The radio station has obtained real-time emails from agents in the controversial Quantico training session which indicate that some agents, distressed by what they were being taught, complained to superiors and sought council from experts. “Generally, Mohammed was portrayed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It may not be so easy to get off the terrorist watch list, the New York Times has found. The paper reported that the FBI is allowed to include people on the list who have been acquitted of terrorism related crimes or the crimes have been dismissed. The discovery comes after…
http://youtu.be/Bylhlx6jrKU OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST Rebel Flag Still Flying in Black S.C. Neighborhood (AP) Cops Object to LA Times Probe Into Pensions (Courthouse News Service) House Judiciary Chair Questions Dual Role of Acting ATF Director (Main Justice) More Ammunition to Criticize NYPD Counterterrorism Force (Spy Talk) Judge in Cash for Kids Scheme Gets 17.5 Years…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A decade later and it appears that al-Qaeda members are still trying to turn airplanes into deadly weapons. “Al-Qaida has been obsessed with airplanes, they continue to be obsessed with airplanes,” said Robert Grant, head of the Chicago FBI., according to the Chicago Sun-Times. “They want to use airplanes to kill…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Pennsylvania man who bit two FBI agents earlier this year, and tried to promote terror attacks online, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Pittsburgh, the Associated Press reported. Emerson Begolly, 22, pleaded guilty to using the Internet to promote terror attacks against American military and civilian targets. He posted…
