Monday, May 07, 2012

CIA Thwarts New Ambitious Underwear Bomb Plot by Al Qaeda Affiliate in Yemen to Destroy U.S.-Bound Airliner

Monday, May 07, 2012

* LATimes.com brings us the following AP report that starts off like this… The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, U.S. officials said… The plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Dec., 25, 2009. This new bomb was also designed to be used in a passenger's underwear, but this time Al Qaeda developed a more refined detonation system, U.S. officials said…
Read the full report at link below…
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