Friday, January 11, 2013
The agency is launching a national website highlighting unidentified bank robbers from around the country.
The FBI has launched a national website dedicated to identifying unknown bank robbers from the FBI’s 56 field offices, and it includes several who have allegedly committed crimes in Alexandria. The website, bankrobbers.fbi.gov, allows the public to search by the unknown robber’s nickname, robbery location and the date of the robbery. Each bank robbery is plotted on a Google map of the United States that can be viewed down to the street level. The FBI wants to remove the threat of violence from financial institutions in our region by identifying and holding accountable those who commit these robberies, the agency said in a news release. A search of the database lists two City of Alexandria robberies – the TD Bank on S. Washington Street in …
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Victory Center on Eisenhower Avenue considered an "emerging possibility."
Could the FBI move its headquarters to Alexandria? On Tuesday during a City Council meeting, Mayor Bill Euille asked city staff what could be done to put Alexandria in contention to land the agency. The General Services Administration announced last week that it is reviewing sites for a new FBI headquarters. U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-8th) and several other local lawmakers then sent a letter to the GSA administrator urging him to consider Northern Virginia. Euille said Tuesday that Moran mentioned the vacant Victory Center on Eisenhower Avenue as a possible location for the FBI at a meeting of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties in Tysons Corner. “Where are we and what can we do to be in line to be considered to be one…
Friday, September 14, 2012
Amine El Khalifi, an illegal immigrant from Morocco, was living in Alexandria at the time he planned suicide attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Amine Mohammed El Khalifi, an illegal immigrant from Morocco living in Alexandria who plotted a suicide bombing at the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Friday, according to The Washington Post. Khalifi pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in June, saying he constructed a plot on the Capitol with men he believed were al-Qaida operatives. The men were actually FBI officials. During a hearing in federal court in Virginia on Friday, Khalifi spoke only briefly. “I just want to say, I love Allah, that’s it,” he said, according to the Post. Police arrested Khalifi on Feb. 17 in a parking garage at the Capitol where he told undercover police he intended to shoot people before detonating a bomb. The gun and bomb were …
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Amine El Khalifi, an illegal immigrant from Morocco, was living in Alexandria at the time he planned suicide attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Amine El Khalifi, an illegal immigrant from Morocco living in Alexandria, will spend at least 25 years in prison after admitting he tried to carry out a suicide bomb plot against the U.S. Capitol in February, according to WTOP. On Friday, El Khalifi pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court, saying he constructed a plot on the Capitol with men he believed were al-Qaida operatives. The men were actually FBI officials. Police arrested El Khalifi on Feb. 17 in a parking garage at the Capitol where he told undercover police he intended to shoot people before detonating a bomb. The gun and bomb were inoperable and officials said the public was never in danger. El Khalifi, 29, did some last-minute planning for the proposed attack at an Alexandria …
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