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Somali Pirate Pleads Guilty in Manhattan
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After decades of seeing pirates portrayed in Hollywood as sword waving, one eye-patched, mythical figures, America has gotten a real life glimpse of the 21st Century Pirate. And he’s not nearly as suave. Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, a Somali pirate, pleaded guilty Tuesday in a Manhattan federal court to leading the attack…
The Salahis Still Under the Microscope
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It seems one way or another, authorities are going to figure out a way to make the Ken and Barbie couple known as Tareq and Michaele Salahi regret that they ever crashed the White House party last November 24. The Washington Post’s Reliable Source column reports that not only…
Philly Immigration Judge Boots Nazi Death Camp Guard From U.S.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Philly immigration judge has ordered the deportation of an 85-year-old man who served as an SS guard at three Nazi concentration camps during World War II, the Justice Department announced. U.S. Immigration Judge Charles Honeyman ordered that Anton Geiser, of Sharon, Pa., be sent to Austria, where he immigrated from…
Suspected NY Car Bomber Arraigned in Manhattan
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Suspected NY car bomber Faisal Shahzad who had been holed up in an undisclosed location talking to investigators without an attorney since his arrest May 3, was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Manhattan shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday. The New York TimesĀ reported that Shahzad, 30, was wearing gray shirt…
U.S. Immigration Judge Grants Asylum for Pres. Obama’s Kenyan Aunt
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — After a protracted legal battle, President Barack Obama’s Kenyan aunt has been granted asylum, the Associated Press reported. A U.S. Immigration judge in Boston mailed the decision on Friday, AP reported. The aunt, Zeituni Onyango, is the half sister of Obama’s later father. A person must prove that they…
Pakistani Ambassador Says 3 Men in NY Bomb Case Not Terrorists
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The three Pakistani men rounded up last week as part of the ongoing probe into the New York car bomb incident don’t appear to have links to terrorism, the Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. told the Boston Globe. Ambassador Husain Haqqani of Washington, whose statement was based on briefings…
NY Car Bomb Suspect Could Be Talking His Way to Less Prison Time
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — Talk may be cheap, but for New York car bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad, yapping to the feds, and doing so without a lawyer, could potentially pay off in the form of a lighter sentence, legal experts say. Just how much lighter is anyone’s guess, though clearly he’s…
EX-FBI Agent Who Was Always in the Thick of It Pens First Novel
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — While I was a reporter at the Detroit News covering the federal courthouse in downtown Detroit, FBI agent Herman Groman left his mark. When the FBI ran a massive sting that netted a number of crooked local judges, Herman Groman was in thick of all of that. A few…