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Bomber in al-Qaeda plot was double agent | |
2012-05-09 | |
Can anyone work out what this is all about?
American officials leaked details of the extraordinary intelligence coup two days after the White House announced a plot by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) had been successfully thwarted. The double agent managed to spend weeks with AQAP before handing over information allowing the US to launch a drone strike on Sunday that killed Fahd al-Quso, a senior figure wanted for the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, the New York Times and other media reported, citing unnamed US officials. A senior US official told the Times a bomb for the would-be attack was sewn into "custom fit" underwear that would have been difficult to detect even in a careful pat-down at an airport. Unlike the device used in the failed December 2009 plot by AQAP to blow up an airliner en route to Detroit, this explosive could have been detonated in two ways, in case one failed, the unnamed official was quoted as saying. The main charge was a high-grade military explosive that "undoubtedly would have brought down an aircraft," the official said. ABC News had reported earlier that the latest plot by AQAP was thwarted by a spy who infiltrated the group and took the explosive to Saudi Arabia. The CIA and other government agencies are declining to comment on the reports. | |
Posted by:tipper |
#2 Is it just me, or does anyone else suddenly want to grab their groins like those Beach-Boyz-in-Drag in the Miller Lite commercial??? Maha-Rushian Q#1 = Are we sure thats a Man's = Male underwear - some of these new-fangled designs + colors have been confusing me since the late 1990's??? |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-05-09 19:56 |
#1 A better explanation |
Posted by: tipper 2012-05-09 13:23 |