Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A naturalized U.S. citizen from Yemen planned to use firearms to kill returning American troops and Shitte Muslims living in the Rochester area, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports. The suspect, Mufid Elfgeeh made no secret of his hatred for the U.S. on Twitter. Announcing his allegiance with al-Qaeda, he tweeted, “”al-Qaeda…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In the six hours before radical American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki entered the Pentagon for a luncheon in February 2002, he was being tracked by the FBI’s elite surveillance unit, Fox News reports. Records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show the bureau’s Special Surveillance Group trailed al-Awlaki, who was killed by…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com In the war on terror, success can sometimes bring retaliation. Global terrorist Fahd al-Quso, who had links to the USS Cole bombing, was killed in Yemen Sunday, according to Yemeni officials and confirmed by al-Qaeda, reports USA Today. A CIA drone strike killed the top al-Qaeda leader, on the FBI Most-Wanted list…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III vowed Tuesday in Yemen to help that nation battle an Islamist insurgency, Reuters news service reported. Reuters also reported that a U.S. drone had killed a high level al Qaeda figure in Yemen linked to an attack on a French oil tanker. Mueller met with…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Massachusetts man is facing life in prison after being convicted on Tuesday in Boston federal court on terrorism charges. After 10 hours of deliberation, the federal jury convicted Tarek Mehanna of conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaeda, to commit murder in a foreign country and to charges of providing false…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Did police, district attorneys and Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg inflate the importance of a recent terror suspect arrest? A New York magazine report suggests that was possibility. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., and Mayor Bloomberg announced the arrest of Jose Pimentel at a city hall news…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Transportation Security Administration is still not scanning 100 percent of the parcels on inbound international flights, and Congress wants to know why. The website NextGov.com reports that it appears TSA will miss a deadline to scan all parcels on overseas planes for the second time, and House Democrats have sent a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com On tv, radio and on the Internet, pro and con opinions are rapidly cropping up over the assassination in Yemen of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical U.S.-born Muslim cleric. Plenty folks in the U.S. were simply elated. Period. But others are questioning whether the U.S. has stepped over the line by assassinating the…
