WASHINGTON — Earlier this month, on the 5th floor of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, in the shadow the nation’s Capitol, John G. Perren, special agent in charge of the Counterterrorism Branch, talked to ticklethewire.com editor Allan Lengel about lessons learned since Sept. 11, about the challenges the Internet has posed for terrorism investigations and…
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 Homegrown terrorists just keep popping up. The FBI on Tuesday night arrested a 26-year-old Chicago man, Shaker Masri, an American citizen, who allegedly had plans to travel to Somalia to fight with a terrorist group linked to al Qaeda and become a suicide bomber, authorities said. Masri, who lived in the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A 20-year-old Virginia man, who made threats against the TV show “South Park”, was arrested Wednesday on charges of providing material support to al Shabaab, a terrorist organization in Somalia with links to al Qaeda, authorities said. Zachary Adam Chesser, 20, of Fairfax County, Va., who according to a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– In hopes of learning their identities, the FBI and and Uganda authorities have released photos of two suspected suicide bombers who helped kill more than 70 people on July 11 in the Uganda capital of Kampala. The Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab has taken responsibility for the attacks at different…
