By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF agent Scott Sweetow has been named deputy director for the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC). The intergovernmental agency, which is based at the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Va., coordinates efforts to gather and share intelligence about improvised explosive devices (IEDs), helps disarm and disrupt IEDs, link them to their makers…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Two hours outside of Bangkok, Byron San Marco, an ATF special agent, explodes a hidden bomb slung over the back seat of a motor bike, according to a report by Time magazine. San Marco and his ATF team will blow up two more improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at the US-funded Tactical…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Radio frequency modules from a Minnesota manufacturer, after being smuggled into Iran, ended up in improvised explosive devices used against U.S. soldiers on the battlefields of Iraq, federal authorities alleged this week. Authorities in Singapore arrested Wong Yuh Lan (Wong), Lim Yong Nam (Nam), Lim Kow Seng (Seng), and Hia Soo…
