June 2012

With depressing repeatability, the latest terrorist bomb plot – thankfully foiled by intelligence agents – was again focused on bringing down a commercial airliner. According to the US Central Intelligence Agency, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was planning to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb device that was similar in concept to that worn in his underwear by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in the attempted attack on Christmas Day 2009. But the AQAP device used a new design that would have made it very difficult to detect by magnetometer....More