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The Baltimore Sun believes that it was not the hard work of the FBI that stopped a man from committing a terrorist act against a military recruiting station in Catonsville, but it was some of the people he contacted in Muslim community who would not go along with his plans ("Terror in our midst," Dec. 9). What? Did the Muslim people the terrorist contacted call the FBI and tell them what this guy was asking them to do? No, it was the diligence of the FBI that found this guy and stopped him. Come on, Baltimore Sun, give credit to the FBI for doing their job. Ron Wirsing, Havre de Grace

Robert M. Stock, a retired electrical engineer and FBI fingerprint pioneer whose work led to the establishment of the Automated Fingerprint Identification System, died Wednesday of complications from a stroke at his Severna Park home. He was 83. The son of a restaurant purveyor and a homemaker, he was born and raised in Syracuse, N.Y., where he graduated from Eastwood High School in 1946. He served in the Army Signal Corps from 1946 to 1949, and then enrolled at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., in a five-year program that allowed him to earn both his bachelor's and master's degrees in 1954 in electrical engineering.

How many of my tax dollars went to the FBI to set up this and other ridiculous sting operations ( "Arrest made in plot to blow up area military recruiting center," Dec. 9)? How much will be wasted on court costs and incarceration? Wouldn't it have been wiser to have agents pose as reasonable, mainstream Muslims and talk the poor, misguided guy out of being a radical? Or better yet, connect him with any of the fine mainstream Islamic organizations in the area who could easily bring him into the fold and teach him that such acts are not acceptable?

The FBI is going to lead the investigation into the shooting of a customer during a robbery of Royal Farms convenience store in Northeast Baltimore Tuesday night. Police said a $2,500 reward is being offered in the case. New information from police : Authorities said the gunman demanded the customer's wallet and shot him as he reached to get it. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that the FBI's Violent Crime Task Force, which includes members of the city force, will take over the case.

As an original 1986 founding member of CIA's Counter-Terrorism Center, and having read and/or listened to all publicly available information about the alleged plot to bomb a Catonsville military recruitment center, I wish to highly commend the work done by our local FBI agents and those from headquarters. Although I do have a graduate degree in criminal justice which required completion of criminal law courses, I am not a lawyer; however, every indication is that our bureau colleagues did everything by the book, and even arranged for the purposely safe, inert bomb to render an audible explosive sound to clearly document that the alleged terrorist followed through and actively triggered what he reportedly believed to be a lethal car bomb!

The FBI is going to lead the investigation into the shooting of a customer during a robbery of Royal Farms convenience store in Northeast Baltimore Tuesday night. Police said a $2,500 reward is being offered in the case. New information from police : Authorities said the gunman demanded the customer's wallet and shot him as he reached to get it. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that the FBI's Violent Crime Task Force, which includes members of the city force, will take over the case.

The FBI will lead the investigation into the shooting of a customer during a robbery of a Royal Farms convenience store in Northeast Baltimore on Tuesday night. Police said the gunman demanded the customer's wallet and shot him as he reached for it. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that the FBI's Violent Crime Task Force, which includes members of the city force, will take over the case. He said federal authorities are being called in to send a message "that violent crime will not be tolerated in Baltimore.

I hope that the readers of The Sun will read to the end of the editorial in Thursday's paper ("Terror in our midst," Dec. 9). The last sentence seemed to me to be a wise comment, "As much as we rely on the FBI to keep us safe, we may owe the most to peace-loving Muslims who will not tolerate the radicals in their midst. " Thank you for that thought. Phyllis Yingling, Catonsville

Thursday night is b intern Becky Quinn's favorite night of the week for plenty of reasons (hello, Thirsty Thursday!). NBC and its comedy lineup just make it that much better. Rather than taking her time like her roommates to get ready to go out, she would rather sit in front of my TV from 8-10 p.m. and chuckle to herself. Here she picks this week's LOL moments: "Community": I only have one thing to say about this episode - Chang is not only married to the leg of a mannequin and living in a storage closet, but he is now also the head of security at Greendale.

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The FBI will lead the investigation into the shooting of a customer during a robbery of a Royal Farms convenience store in Northeast Baltimore on Tuesday night. Police said the gunman demanded the customer's wallet and shot him as he reached for it. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that the FBI's Violent Crime Task Force, which includes members of the city force, will take over the case. He said federal authorities are being called in to send a message "that violent crime will not be tolerated in Baltimore.

William Arthur Urie, a former FBI special agent who later was secretary of the state Department of Licensing and Regulation, died of cancer Monday at his Silver Spring home. He was 92. The son of a store owner and a beautician, he was born and raised in Rock Hall. After graduating from Rock Hall High School in 1935, he earned a bachelor's degree from Washington College in 1939. He attended law school at George Washington University. He served as a military policeman and later an Army provost marshal from 1941 to 1945, when he was discharged with the rank of captain.

The federal definition of rape, used to determine how national crime data are collected, has been changed for the first time in more than 80 years, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday. A more inclusive definition of forcible rape is expected to improve the accuracy of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, which aggregate crime statistics from local law enforcement agencies across the country. The old definition, in effect since 1927, said that "forcible rape" was "the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will.

Maryland officials are working behind the scenes to lure the FBI's headquarters to the state from its longtime home base in downtown Washington as the agency seeks an updated building to carry out its expanded counterterrorism and cyber crime missions. If successful, the effort would land nearly 12,000 jobs and a 2.1 million square-foot office complex in Prince George's County, making it one of the largest economic development coups in years. Its impact would rival the immense footprint in the state of the Social Security Administration, which has its headquarters in Woodlawn.

The definition of rape that dictates how local police departments report crimes to federal record keepers is expected to change — for the first time in more than 80 years — in early 2012. The final step of changing the Uniform Crime Report definition of rape was publicly acknowledged Wednesday, when FBI Director Robert Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he approved expanding a definition that critics say was too narrow. "[I]t was in some ways unworkable, certainly not … fully applicable to the types of crime that it should cover," Mueller said in response to a question from Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., about why it was important to update the rape definition.

Carl Nathan Greene, a retired FBI budget analyst, died after he lapsed into a coma Nov. 21 at Good Samaritan Hospital while being treated for respiratory, heart and kidney failure. The Severn resident was 49. Born in Baltimore and raised in Waverly, he attended Abbottston Elementary School and was a 1979 Lake Clifton High School graduate. Family members said that while he was a student, he worked part time for the Social Security Administration in Woodlawn. As a young high school graduate, he was hired as a clerk in the FBI's finance division in Washington.

They invaded a vending machine business in Canton. Next, they went after a pharmacy owner in Pikesville. Then a restaurateur in Cockeysville. The FBI arrested the robbers outside a cafe in Atlantic City as they prepared for another job. But even as four suspects are headed to federal prison after guilty pleas or convictions, authorities appear far from done with their investigation. Federal agents think they know who the group was going to hit next, and how they managed to get precise information on their targets — the Motor Vehicle Administration.

FBI AGENT Coleen Rowley blew the whistle long and loud. The Minneapolis lawyer's biting complaint about FBI officials' disinterest in investigating a potential hijacking suspect prior to Sept. 11 certainly advanced this week's announced reorganization of the 94-year-old crime-fighting agency. With one of the bureau's own joining a chorus of critics, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III recognized the need to demonstrate now the bureau's commitment to a counterterrorism offensive and its ability to undertake it. His candor and self-criticism on the bureau's lack of follow-up on two key memos pertaining to Sept.

A retired FBI agent says the agency was too slow to investigate Antonio Martinez, who is accused of trying to blow up a military recruiting center in Maryland, and showed a "reckless disregard" for evidence collection by failing to record several meetings between Martinez and an informant. "The inattention and the delayed response by the FBI to conduct investigation … is not commensurate with generally accepted reasonable FBI investigative practices," James J. Wedick, a 34-year bureau veteran, wrote in a 13-page report, calling the case a "serious departure from the FBI's authorized mandate to respond quickly to threats, particularly crimes of violence and threats to national security.