By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ralph Boelter, head of the Minneapolis FBI, who headed up a large scale probe into counterterrorism involving local Somalis heading overseas to fight with a terrorist organization, is headed east to Washington to become the agency’s deputy assistant director in charge of counterterrorism, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. Boelter told the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 20-year-old Saudi student living in Lubbock, Tex., who allegedly considered targeting Americans including President George W. Bush and soldiers formerly stationed at Abu Ghraib, was arrested late Wednesday on terrorism-related charges. The Justice Department charged Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction in connection with…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The woman who went by the name “Jihad Jane” — a made-for-TV moniker — pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Philadelphia to terrorism charges that included allegations that she was involved in a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog….
By Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial Page PITTSBURGH — American mobsters probably assumed they had a free ride after Sept. 11. East Coast crime families probably breathed easier after the Justice Department turned its attention toward foreigners whose names appeared on terror-watch lists. For sure, the specter of international terrorism provided the FBI and other law enforcement…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News With just hours to go before the ball drops, the FBI in New York says it knows of no credible terrorist threats involving the traditional New Year’s Eve celebration in Manhattan’s famed Times Square. “While there’s no credible threat, the FBI and NYPD, as they do every year, will…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A group of suspected terrorists arrested last week in Britain had included the U.S. embassy in London as a target, Reuters news service reported. The news surfaced after 12 people were arrested on Dec. 20 in raids in Britain. Three people were later released without charges, Reuters reported. “I…
WASHINGTON — Earlier this month, on the 5th floor of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, in the shadow the nation’s Capitol, John G. Perren, special agent in charge of the Counterterrorism Branch, talked to ticklethewire.com editor Allan Lengel about lessons learned since Sept. 11, about the challenges the Internet has posed for terrorism investigations and…
