Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Before pulling the switch on what he thought was a bomb at a tree-lighting event in Portland, Mohamed Mohamud posed before a camera wearing a camouflage jacket and red scarf, saying his goodbyes, the Oregonian reports. The video was shown during the second day of testimony in the trial of Mohamud,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The investigation began with an email message about jihad and ended with a man pressing the trigger on what he believed to be a car bomb outside of a Chicago bar, the Associated Press reports. On Friday, after months of investigating the 18-year-old U.S. citizen from a Chicago suburb,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has foiled terrorist attacks and saved lives using so-called trip wires, Dr. Vahid Majidi, the former assistant FBI director in charge of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, tells Newsmax. Ronald Kessler writes: The wires are designed to tip off the FBI of potential terrorists by identifying people who buy…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The attorney of a Saudi man accused in a bombing plot against the U.S. didn’t present much of a defense, resting the case without any evidence or witnesses to testify, the Associated Press reports. Closing arguments in the terror case against Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari in Amarillo, Tex. are expected this morning. If…
The report says the FBI made some improvements during the course of the audit, but there were still important improvements that needed to be made. The upside is in the past week the FBI has looked pretty good busting up suspected terrorist plots in Texas, Illinois and N.Y. By Fox News The FBI unit tasked…
