Steve Neavling ticklethrewire.com Step inside the FBI’s bomb warehouse outside of Washington, where experts analyze bombs used to injure and kill thousands of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Businessweek reports that 700 people work at the FBI’s Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center. It’s not easy work. Most of the bombs are assembled with objects…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A little-known FBI crime lab near Washington played a critical role in convicting two men who helped target American soldiers in Iraq with improvised exploding devices, the Los Angeles Times reports. Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammad pleaded guilty to smuggling Stinger surface-to-air missiles and money to terrorists in Iraq from…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Rafael J. Garcia, Jr., who served as director of the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC) in Quantico, Va., has been named special agent in charge of the FBI’s Intelligence Division in Los Angeles. Garcia joined the FBI in 1995 as a special agent in Phoenix where he investigated drug, organized…
