A noose is a loop at the end of a rope in which the knot tightens under load and can be loosened without untying the knot. The knot can be used to secure a rope to a post,pole,or animal but only where the end is in a position that the loop can be passed over.
The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation is one of the largest Caribbean and Latino street and prison gangs worldwide. The gang was founded by Puerto Ricans in Chicago,Illinois,in 1954.
The Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal involved Lawrence Franklin,a former United States Department of Defense employee,passing classified documents regarding United States policy towards Iran to Israel. Franklin pleaded guilty to several espionage-related charges and was sentenced in January 2006 to nearly 13 years of prison,which was later reduced to ten months' house arrest. Franklin passed information to American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy director Steven Rosen and AIPAC senior Iran analyst Keith Weissman,who were fired by AIPAC. They were then indicted for illegally conspiring to gather and disclose classified national security information to Israel. However,prosecutors later dropped all charges against them without any plea bargain.
Operation Backfire is a multi-agency criminal investigation,led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),into destructive acts in the name of animal rights and environmental causes in the United States described as eco-terrorism by the FBI. The operation resulted in convictions and imprisonment of a number of people,many of whom were members of the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front.
Lester A. Lefton is an American academic and higher education administrator. He was the President of Kent State University (2006–2014). He has 35 years of experience in higher education,having served for 25 years at a public institution and nine at private institutions. During his career,he has been a psychology professor,dean and provost,as well as a psychology textbook author.
The Kansas City crime family,also known as the Civella crime family or Kansas City Mafia,is an Italian-American Mafia family based in Kansas City,Missouri.
In the United States,a common definition of terrorism is the systematic or threatened use of violence in order to create a general climate of fear to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political,religious,or ideological change. This article serves as a list and a compilation of acts of terrorism,attempts to commit acts of terrorism,and other such items which pertain to terrorist activities which are engaged in by non-state actors or spies who are acting in the interests of state actors or persons who are acting without the approval of foreign governments within the domestic borders of the United States.
In United States law,providing material support for terrorism is a crime prohibited by the USA PATRIOT Act and codified in title 18 of the United States Code,sections 2339A and 2339B. It applies primarily to groups designated as terrorists by the State Department. The four types of support described are "training," "expert advice or assistance," "service," and "personnel."
Barack Obama,the 44th president of the United States,was involved in multiple security incidents,including several assassination threats and plots,starting from when he became a presidential candidate in 2007. Secret Service protection for Obama began after he received a death threat in 2007,while serving as the junior United States senator from Illinois and running for president. This marked the earliest time a candidate received such protection before being nominated. Security was increased early for Obama due to fears of possible assassination attempts by white supremacist or other racist groups or individuals against the first African American major party presidential nominee.
Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai is an American citizen of Kashmiri origin,and a Jamaat-e-Islami activist. He founded the organisation Kashmiri American Council in the United States and carried out lobbying on behalf of Kashmiri separatist groups and the Government of Pakistan. In 2011,the US government stated that this was a front group for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
The New York divorce coercion gang was a Haredi Jewish group who kidnapped,and in some cases tortured,Jewish men in the New York metropolitan area to force them to grant their wives religious divorces (gittin). The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) broke up the group after conducting a sting operation against the gang in October 2013. The sting resulted in the prosecution of four men,three of whom were convicted in late 2015.
The Curtis Culwell Center attack was a failed terrorist attack on an exhibit featuring cartoon images of Muhammad at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland,Texas on May 3,2015,which ended in a shootout with police guarding the event,and the deaths of the two perpetrators. The attackers shot an unarmed Garland Independent School District (GISD) security officer in the ankle. Shortly after opening fire,both attackers were shot by an off-duty Garland police officer and killed by SWAT.
Julio Rocha López was a Nicaraguan football administrator,FIFA development officer,Central American Football Union (UNCAF) president,and Nicaraguan Football Federation (FENIFUT) president. Rocha López was arrested in May 2015 in Switzerland to face corruption charges in the United States.
Joshua Ryne Goldberg is an American internet troll,convicted of attempting a bombing on the 14th anniversary of the September 11 attacks while posing as an Islamic terrorist affiliated with ISIS. After his arrest,he posted a public statement where he stated "it was always my intention to infiltrate online jihadist spheres so that I could eventually become a journalist,an FBI agent,or both." He also stated that when the FBI informant asked him for information on how to build a bomb "I literally just googled 'how to make a bomb' and sent him some links." In this same public statement he revealed that,while he wishes it had not been made public,he has a diagnosis of autism and depression.
Jaelyn Delshaun Young is an American woman,who with fellow Mississippi State University student and her fiancé,an American man named Muhammad Oda "Mo" Dakhlalla,attempted to join ISIS in 2015. The two were students at Mississippi State University in Starkville,Mississippi when they met,and later decided to travel to Syria to join the known terrorist organization,ISIS. Young was apprehended by the FBI and ultimately pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges. U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock sentenced Young to 12 years in federal prison on August 11,2016.
Professor Watchlist is a website,run by conservative advocacy organization Turning Point USA,that lists academic staff which Turning Point believes "discriminate against conservative students,promote anti-American values and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom." It was launched in 2016 and had listed about 200 professors by December of that year. The website erroneously claimed that Hunter Biden would "assist in lecturing a course" at Tulane University in the fall semester of 2021.
George Demetrios Papadopoulos is an author and former member of the foreign policy advisory panel to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. On October 5,2017,Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to a felony charge of making false statements to FBI agents about the timing and the possible significance of his contacts in 2016 relating to U.S.–Russia relations and the Trump presidential campaign. In 2018,he served twelve days in federal prison,then was placed on a 12-month supervised release. During his supervised release from prison,he participated in the filming of a still-unreleased docuseries. In March 2019,Papadopoulos released his book,Deep State Target:How I Got Caught in the Crosshairs of the Plot to Bring Down President Trump. He was pardoned by Trump in December 2020.
Daniela Greene,born in Czechoslovakia in 1980 and raised in Germany,became an American citizen after marrying a US Armed Services member. She earned her bachelor's degree in Oklahoma and a master's degree in history from Clemson University in 2008. In 2011,she joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a contract linguist with the help of her thesis supervisor,Alan Grubb. Greene was assigned to communicate with Denis Cuspert,an ISIL member,during a covert FBI investigation in 2014. However,she secretly used an additional Skype account to communicate with Cuspert and traveled to ISIL-occupied Syria,where they married and she became a ISIL bride.
Daniel Michael Deocampo is an American geologist,geochemist,and academic administrator. He was an associate dean and professor of geosciences at Georgia State University. Deocampo pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on November 3,2021.
