By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds worry that terrorist aren’t just looking at the big planes as a weapon to kill. ABC News reports that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI issued a warning Friday about small planes, saying: “Violent extremists with knowledge of general aviation and access to small planes pose…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Convicted right winger, New Jersey Internet shock jock Harold “Hal” Turner, who once worked as an FBI informant, claims his life is in danger now that he’s housed in federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., with notorious prisoners, the Jersey Journal reported. “I probably won’t even see it coming,” Turner wrote…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The year 2010 was full of almost-disastrous terrorist acts from the Times Square Bomber to the the Portland teen who tried to detonate a car bomb during a Christmas-lighting ceremony in Oregon, only to find out it was an FBI sting. Not everyone agreed with the FBI tactics when…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A behavior-protection program designed to spot suspected terrorists and others who pose dangers at U.S. airports doesn’t appear to be working all that well. The Boston Globe reports that at least 16 people who were later tied to terror plots passed through U.S. airports without being detected by federal…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Has the case of David Headley, the 49-year-old Chicago man accused of helping plot the 2008 Mumbai, India attacks, pointed out the holes in the United State’s intelligence gathering? The New York Times reports that Headley “moved effortlessly between the United States, Pakistan and India for nearly seven years, training at…
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The U.S. Attorney in North Carolina said it was a reminder that terrorists “can grow and fester right here at home.” The question is, how much of a threat were these people? Hopefully in coming days and weeks we’ll get a sense. By The Associated Press A North Carolina man trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan…
