By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In an announcement that came as little surprise, the Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda claimed responsibility Friday for explosive devices aboard airplanes bound for the U.S. last week, CNN reported. CNN reported that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which authorities had suspected all along, posted its claim on various radical…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Bush writes in his about to be released memoir that he personally gave the go ahead to waterboard 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who currently awaits trial in federal court. The Washington Post reports that Bush, in his book “Decision Points”, writes when the CIA asked if it could waterboard…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Navy SEAL and two other men have been busted in an ATF sting in which they allegedly smuggled illegal firearms, including AK-47 assault rifles, from Iraq and Afghanistan, and sold them to an undercover agent, federal authorities in Las Vegas said Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Times. Nicholas Bickle,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Oye! The U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York announced on Thursday the extradition of seven Israelis, who ran a lottery telemarketing scam that netted about $2 million from elderly victims in the U.S. between 2007 and September 2008. “The perpetrators of this fraudulent lottery scheme gambled and lost,” said U.S. Attorney…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Royal Dutch Shell PLC, a Swiss freight company, four oil service companies and a U.S. shipping firm will pay a total of $236.5 million in criminal and civil fines for bribing foreign officials in 10 countries for favorable treatment, the Justice Department announced Thursday. The companies bribed officials for favorable treatment…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities on Wednesday discovered a 600-yard long tunnel with lighting and ventilation that went from Tijuana to California that was used to smuggle marijuana, the New York Times reported. DEA and ICE officials said they found about 30 tons of marijuana in the Otay Mesa section of San Diego,the Times…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com From our nation’s heartland comes the latest allegation of people supporting al Qaeda with cash. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in St. Louis unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging three men including a cab driver from St. Louis with conspiring to fund al Shabaab, a terrorist group in Somalia linked to al Qaeda,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Baltimore cop Gregory Mussmacher was convicted in state court of assault after he used his police baton to strike a handcuffed and shackled juvenile in the head and face. But the conviction was reversed. So in stepped the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which convicted Mussmacher in May for the 2004…
