CIA 'foils underwear bomb' plot by al-Qaeda in Yemen Breaking news

[Cidersomerset]

BBC NEWS

7 May 2012 Last updated at 22:09


CIA 'foils underwear bomb' plot by al-Qaeda in Yemen
Breaking news

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US intelligence officials say they have disrupted a plot by al-Qaeda in Yemen to detonate an upgraded version of the failed 2009 "underwear bomb", according to US media reports.

The device is said to be in US custody, with the FBI reportedly examining the bomb, which was seized by CIA agents.

Reports said no target had been chosen and no plane tickets purchased by the time the alleged plot was foiled.

There is no indication on the status of the would-be bomber.

It is not clear who built the device, but officials say it shares some features with the bomb sewn into the underwear of would-be suicide bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on a plane bound for Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.

Speaking to ABC News, a US intelligence official said the device bore "all the hallmarks" of the 2009 underwear bomb.

The latest device included a powerful industrial explosive and did not use metal, suggesting the bomb could have passed through airport security unnoticed, the Associated Press reports.

President Barack Obama was first informed of the plot in April, White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said, adding that the device did not pose a threat to the public.

News of the operation emerged shortly after US marked one year since the death of Osama Bin Laden. Last week, the White House said it was not aware of any current al-Qaeda plots against the US.

News of the alleged plot comes a day after Fahd al-Quso, a senior al-Qaeda leader in Yemen, was killed by a US drone strike.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17985709

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This sounds like a excuse to justify the continous use of Drones to assasinate suspected
terrorists suspects ....and saying they have foiled a plot keeps the press of their backs !!!

[Davy]

How do we know if this is real or a govt. psyop to make us think we are still in danger and need the protection from the terrorists why they continue to RAPE us of the rest of our Rights, of Course to keep us all safe... And even if it is real If I were an Iraqi I would hate America too, After all we went over there and just murdered millions in the name of God, and Keeping us Safe! Bull I say Our world we live in Makes me sick!! I am so ready for change and I do not think it will be long neither!

[DreamsInDigital]

It's just another government psy-op. The Al Quaeda work for the Cabal.

[the_vast_mystery]

It's just another government psy-op. The Al Quaeda work for the Cabal.

Fun fact: There is no Al Qaeda. The name was made up by our alphabet soup agencies to lump together the huge number of different Mujahideen groups operating in the middle east. So any time you see a story mentioning a nebulous "Al Qaeda" then it's Propaganda since the name was only invented to try and create a singular scary "Terrorism Boogeyman" that the USA had to fight.

[Cidersomerset]

ALQAEDA FAKE ORGANIZATION pt4/4

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Thats what I'm saying its all psyops as part of the war on 'Terror' that was set up after
the end of the cold war by the Neo- Cons and TPTB ....


Speaking to ABC News, a US intelligence official said the device bore "all the hallmarks" of the 2009 underwear bomb.

The latest device included a powerful industrial explosive and did not use metal, suggesting the bomb could have passed through airport security unnoticed, the Associated Press reports.


The above quote says they don't need explosives to say there is explosives because you
cannot detect the new explosives !!!! LOL..

[Cidersomerset]

They are putting anti Aircraft missles on roofs in London for the Olympics.....
No military or security deterrent just to scare the public, unless of course
they are planning a another 'false flag' event for the summer !!

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[Flash]

The guy has detonator and dynanmite sticks (or plastic) in his underpants. Really, any sniffing dog would detect it. Israel has had many of these and is geared for detecting it as much as possible. This is soooooo basic that it is extremely ridiculous. But it seems that for the alphabet soup, ridicule does not kill.... hum unwanted play or words.

[Davidallany]

I thought AlQaida was CIA.

[the_vast_mystery]

I thought AlQaida was CIA.

Well, it's highly likely that the Muslim Brotherhood is supported by the CIA or one of our other alphabet soup agencies. How they practice recruitment and how they handle training smacks of a funded counter-insurgency like how we've been equipping Syrian Rebels and such.

[Cidersomerset]

The guy has detonator and dynanmite sticks (or plastic) in his underpants. Really, any sniffing dog would detect it. Israel has had many of these and is geared for detecting it as much as possible. This is soooooo basic that it is extremely ridiculous. But it seems that for the alphabet soup, ridicule does not kill.... hum unwanted play or words.


Sorry Flash ......I put the photo of the explosives in the pants to show the absurdity of it ...LOL....Its not in the article ......Steve

[Flash]

The guy has detonator and dynanmite sticks (or plastic) in his underpants. Really, any sniffing dog would detect it. Israel has had many of these and is geared for detecting it as much as possible. This is soooooo basic that it is extremely ridiculous. But it seems that for the alphabet soup, ridicule does not kill.... hum unwanted play or words.


Sorry Flash ......I put the photo of the explosives in the pants to show the absurdity of it ...LOL....Its not in the article ......Steve

Well, although I was sort of misled, your photo shows quite well the ridiculousness of it anyhow. Those are easy to detect if the right measures are taken, such as sniffing dogs. But US prefers groping people with much less competent workforce than dogs would be in such circumstances.

So thanks for the post.

[Cidersomerset]

I thought AlQaida was CIA.

It is Dave...

[Davidallany]

I thought AlQaida was CIA.

It is Dave...

I´ll be damned bro.

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I thought AlQaida was CIA.

Well, it's highly likely that the Muslim Brotherhood is supported by the CIA or one of our other alphabet soup agencies. How they practice recruitment and how they handle training smacks of a funded counter-insurgency like how we've been equipping Syrian Rebels and such.

Who are the Muslim Brotherhood according to the media.

[Taurean]

Obviously a Zionist Psy-op exercise by that extremist splinter group Marks & Spenser.

[Lost Soul]

So the gubmint is protecting us from its own hirelings?

[Cidersomerset]

Hey Taurean you are right.......There is plenty of room for 'Hidden Explosives ' in Marks & Sparks 'New' ......'Under Bomber Range'


Sunday, 3 October 2010
BIG KNICKERS STRETCH CREDIBILITY....

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Hey fellas.. Tired of looking in the mirror and sighing at the sight of impending middle age, an expanding waistline and the same old greying and baggy Y fronts staring back at you? Well, it seems Marks and Spencer might have the answer. M&S have always produced underwear of the highest quality and are quick to pounce on a niche in the market. They've produced a new range of control pants for men. Yes, MEN. The 'manties' are designed to lift and firm men's bottoms and this is the best bit.. allow less well-endowed men to beef up their bulge.
The £15 Bodymax range go on sale this month to keep men in the loop with their female counterparts, the bestselling 'Bridget Jones' style control pants. The Bodymax pants reputedly raise men's bottoms by 20%. The 'frontal enhancement' pants have a 'unique integral shelf' that bumps up the lunchbox by a huge 38%. And then there's the Bodymax vest which tucks in moobs and beer bellies.

[Taurean]

Big knickers stretch credibility....bang on

[Cidersomerset]

The real Underwear bombers.....

http://operachic.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/carsen_candide.jpg

[Cidersomerset]

October 09, 2009
New: Parody of al Qaeda training video - CAUTION

http://jmw.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c5c3553ef0120a5daabcb970b-pi

http://jmw.typepad.com/political_warfare/psyop/

The UTube vid is on the above site , scroll a little way down...

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The big worry is that terrorists will get their 'Butts' on some military grade nuclear material
to create the 'Ultimate Butt Bomb'....

http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/sites/www.intellectualtakeout.org/files/nuclear_bomb_expo_05.jpg

[Timreh]

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I don't buy Baloney

[Black Panther]

I thought AlQaida was CIA.

Well, it's highly likely that the Muslim Brotherhood is supported by the CIA or one of our other alphabet soup agencies. How they practice recruitment and how they handle training smacks of a funded counter-insurgency like how we've been equipping Syrian Rebels and such.

That's why the term AL-CIA-DA

[Curt]

Why is it that whenever the authorities report on these things they always speak in the same tone you would use to tell a child you've just spotted Santa's sleigh...

....."You know, Jimmy...the weatherman reported seeing Santa's sleigh over Chicago a half an hour ago....(raised eyebrows, semi-serious tone, smirk)...you'd better finish your vegetables and go straight to bed...."

[Cidersomerset]

I just had a look on David Ickes website and this is his 'muted responce' to the BBC Article..LOL..


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Bollocks, Bollocks And Yet More Bollocks

Tuesday, 08 May 2012 11:27
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The BBC, the most controlled and brain dead 'news' organisation on the planet (along with Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, etc, etc.) repeats the official story of a 'foiled bomb plot' that is complete and utter bollocks.

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Jane O'BrienBBC News, Washington:

'In spite of recent successes against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen continues to be the focus of US counter-terrorism operations.

Targeted killings carried out by unmanned aircraft, or drones, have become a key component of the CIA's campaign against senior al-Qaeda figures. On Sunday, Fahd al-Quso, wanted by the FBI for his role in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, was killed by a missile as he stepped out of a vehicle. It's not clear whether his death was part of the same operation that uncovered the latest plane bomb plot against the US.

The man believed to be responsible for designing the device that would have been used is also said to be hiding in Yemen. Ibrahim al-Asiri, 30, is a Saudi national who helped mastermind the so-called "underwear bomb" plot in 2009 and the 2010 attempt to blow up two cargo planes bound for the US. The FBI says the device it is currently examining is similar but more sophisticated than the ones used in those previous attacks.'

How does she know any of this? US officials said so. Er, that's it. Note how matter-of-fact she reports the murder of people by drone strikes without any evidence being produced of their involvement in 'terrorism'.

As a reporter for the BBC, she will be officially unable to see the blatantly bloody obvious - that the drone strikes that have killed thousands of civilians are themselves acts of terrorism, as with pepper-bombing Iraq, Libya, etc., etc. I wouldn't pay them with washers.
The BBC - Blatantly Biased Crap.

http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/66141-bollocks-bollocks-and-yet-more-bollocks-

[brenie]

Hello Cider, yes they are getting better all the time at catching these expertly trained bom-boms!
Notice no mention of the fellow who lost his undies, no doubt it will turn out to be another member of the
notorious Mohamed-duff-patsy family!
Whats arabic for it's a fair cop guv'ner.
And remember the last 'underpants' supposed bomber, the one that traveled without a passport ?
Ofcourse we know he was guilty because, well because he plead guilty, yeah, and it is election year.
And no one seems to notice, no one seems to care!

[Ernie Nemeth]

I care, most of us here care, our guests care. More and more people every day care.

Chin up, brenie.

[Sidney]

I'm sorry, but do they think we are going to fall for that twice?????:bigfish:

[Cidersomerset]

I think its more to do with keeping security measures body scanners and 'gropers' at the terminals because more people have been
protesting at the pointless searches, so they need to create a incident for the press and media....

xKnY8-G26Ww

[Cidersomerset]

Jesse Ventura's TSA Lawsuit Thrown Out By Judge
Jesse Ventura

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura in which he sought to challenge the use of full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints.

Ventura sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration in January alleging that the scans and pat-downs violated his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizure.

U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson ruled Thursday that the court lacked jurisdiction.

Ventura claimed that the titanium hip implanted in him in 2008 sets off metal detectors and that agents previously used hand-held wands to scan his body. He says he was subjected to a body pat-down after an airport metal detector went off last November.

Ventura's attorney says Ventura will comment Friday outside the St. Paul federal courthouse.

[avid]

George Soros and his 'charitable works abroad' strikes again FFS!!! His 'works' have been 'active' in the Yemen for ages now. I almost choked with laughter as the BBC tried to stuff our brains full of this SH** yet again! Even my partner is suspicious! (He of believing all BBC crap)... Osama died many years ago - he was treated in Dubai for organ failure. There are pix of Osama and Bush Junior together. Osama and Obama have such heroic similarities? Such as spelling!!! I am groaning with the "what nexts" under these ludicrous pretexts what will happen due to another pair of errant underpants in the Yemen??? Have the "Fawlty Towers" scriptwriters absconded to the Rothschilds/Murdochs et al? We await on the edge of our seats to see what an errant underpant patsie can precipitate WW!!!??? Or NOT!!!
Avid

[Cidersomerset]

If it was not so serious, it would be a scene as you say from a classic British Farce.....

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[avid]

Excellent - at least we still have a sense of humour :-D

[panopticon]

The supposed bomber is being reported in Australia as being a CIA or Saudi operative.

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2012/s3499283.htm

That's the reason no-one was concerned for the publics safety, or so the story goes....
Kind Regards, :yo:
Panopticon

[WhiteFeather]

BBC NEWS

7 May 2012 Last updated at 22:09


CIA 'foils underwear bomb' plot by al-Qaeda in Yemen

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Yemeni al-Qaeda leader 'killed in drone strike'

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Fahd al Quso Fahd al-Quso was described as "a senior terrorist operative" and had a price of $5 million on his head

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That photo resembles Obama when he was a teenager perhaps.

[Cidersomerset]

Channel 4 News
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Foiled underwear bomber 'is double agent'
Wednesday 09 May 2012
A would-be underwear bomber foiled by American intelligence is actually a double agent, according to US reports.
Underwear bomber

Reports claim Saudi Arabia's intelligence agency placed the operative inside al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) with the goal of convincing his handlers to give him a new type of non-metallic bomb for the mission.

Western intelligence agencies have identified AQAP as among the most dangerous and determined al Qaeda affiliates in the world, dedicated in part to attacks on the West.

The explosive device was intended to be smuggled aboard an aircraft undetected and then detonated.

The double agent arranged instead to deliver the device to U.S. and other intelligence authorities waiting outside Yemen, the LA Times reported.

The agent arrived safely in an unidentified country and is being debriefed.

Experts at the FBI's bomb laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, are now analyzing the device to determine if it really could have evaded airport security, the newspaper said.

Upgraded version

If such a device could be brought on board an aircraft, it could in theory be detonated without the knowledge of aircraft passengers and crew.

The main charge was a high-grade military explosive that "undoubtedly would have brought down an aircraft," the New York Times reported, citing a senior American official.

It appeared to be an upgraded version of the so-called "underwear bomb" that failed to down a passenger jet over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, the LA Times said.

"Like that bomb, this device bears the forensic signature of feared al Qaeda bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan Asiri," who is believed to be hiding in Yemen, the LA Times Web site reported.

The operation relied not on the high-tech and satellite surveillance for which the CIA has been known in recent years, but old-fashioned human intelligence work.

It did, however, produce intelligence that helped the CIA locate top al Qaeda operative Fahd al-Qasaa, who was killed on Sunday when a CIA drone targeted him with a missile as he stepped out of his car in Yemen, the newspapers reported.

Qasaa was thought by intelligence analysts to have played a role in the bombing of guided missile destroyer USS Cole in a Yemeni port in 2000.
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Sky news report....

http://www.lbc.co.uk/underwear-bomber-was-double-agent-54631


The more that is comming out, the more TPTB are involved !!!!

[Cidersomerset]

Manufactured False Flag Bomb Plot Exposed, Officials Irate Over Leak Proving CIA Ran Entire Operation

Thursday, 10 May 2012 09:31

NCivg4-jePs

'The supposed al Qaeda bomb plot to blow up a U.S. bound plane has completely fallen apparent with recent revelations that the terrorist was actually working for the CIA and Saudi Intelligence the entire time.

That’s right, this huge corporate media manufactured story was literally a NON EVENT with the terrorist actually being an operative who then turned the bomb over to the Central Intelligence Agency.

In an all too predictable next move, the corporate media is now running direct homeland security advertisements for body scanners throughout the entire world.'

Read more: Manufactured False Flag Bomb Plot Exposed, Officials Irate Over Leak Proving CIA Ran Entire Operation

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You have got to admire this BS and how the mainstream lap it up......Then they go on to say the Scanners we need are in crates and 300 airports go
unprotected.....From who ? TPTB and their alpha bet stouges !!!

[GlassSteagallfan]

I thought AlQaida was CIA.

I thought CIA was the Cocaine Import Agency

[Taurean]

The explosive device was intended to be smuggled aboard an aircraft undetected and then detonated. Really

The double agent arranged instead to deliver the device to U.S. and other intelligence authorities waiting outside Yemen, the LA Times reported.Intelligence ???

The agent arrived safely in an unidentified country and is being debriefed. How revealing

Experts at the FBI's bomb laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, are now analyzing the device to determine if it really could have evaded airport security, the newspaper said. Right, rip it all out and start again !!!

Upgraded version Still leaked

If such a device could be brought on board an aircraft, it could in theory be detonated without the knowledge of aircraft passengers and crew How
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Sky news report....

http://www.lbc.co.uk/underwear-bomber-was-double-agent-54631

[mountain_jim]

Veteran's today Summary

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/10/two-years-late-crotch-bomber-now-outed-as-cia/



‘Underwear Bomber’ Was Working for the CIA

By Paul Harris and Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK


Editor’s Note: A 3 year old VT article sits below. We waited this long for the truth to come out…in Britain but not America. Why is a CIA agent on a “false flag” assignment now doing life in prison? We just had the same type attack several days ago and we have already been assured it was the CIA and Homeland Security that planned and executed it.



Would-be “underwear bomber” involved in a plot to attack a US-based jet was in fact working as an undercover informer with Saudi intelligence and the CIA, it has emerged.

The revelation is the latest twist in an increasingly bizarre story about the disruption of an apparent attempt by al-Qaida to strike at a high-profile American target using a sophisticated device hidden in the clothing of an attacker.

The plot, which the White House said on Monday had involved the seizing of an underwear bomb by authorities in the Middle East sometime in the last 10 days, had caused alarm throughout the US.

It has also been linked to a suspected US drone strike in Yemen where two Yemeni members of al-Qaida were killed by a missile attack on their car on Sunday, one of them a senior militant, Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso.

But the news that the individual at the heart of the bomb plot was in fact an informer for US intelligence is likely to raise just as many questions as it answers.

Citing US and Yemeni officials, Associated Press reported that the unnamed informant was working under cover for the Saudis and the CIA when he was given the bomb, which was of a new non-metallic type aimed at getting past airport security.

The informant then turned the device over to his handlers and has left Yemen, the officials told the news agency. The LA Times, which first broke the news that the plot had been a “sting operation”, said that the bomb plan had also provided the intelligence leads that allowed the strike on Quso.

Earlier John Brennan, Barack Obama’s top counter-terrorism adviser and a former CIA official, told ABC’s Good Morning America that authorities are “confident that neither the device nor the intended user of this device pose a threat to us”.

US officials have said the plot was detected in its early stages and that no American airliner was ever at risk.

The FBI is conducting forensic tests on the bomb as a first step towards discovering whether it would have cleared existing airport scanning systems. Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic senator for California who heads the Senate intelligence committee, gave an early hint when she said that she had been briefed about the device which she called “undetectable”.

But AP quoted an unnamed US official as saying current detection methods probably would have spotted the shape of the explosive in the latest device.

Just how major an escalation in threat is posed by the bomb remains unclear. Security sources have told news agencies that it was a step up in levels of sophistication from the original underwear bomb that was used in a failed attempt to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009.

The device used a more refined detonation system, and Brennan said “it was a threat from a standpoint of the design”.

When it comes to who made the device the focus is on an al-Qaida’s offshoot, Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Matthew Levitt, a counter-terrorism expert at the Washington Institute, said that the interception of the plot amounted to a significant achievement for US security agencies.

He said: “The FBI is holding the device, which suggests that this was done by having boots on the ground. This was a sophisticated operation that shows we are making in-roads in serious places.”

Levitt, who was involved as a senior analyst in the FBI’s investigation into 9/11, said that it was natural to be sceptical in a presidential election year about security announcements. “But this was not political, it didn’t come from the White House and my sense was that it was a really unique success,” he said.

Levitt said that the spotlight would now be even more intense on Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, AQAP’s assumed bomb-making chief, who is thought to be hiding out in Yemen.

Asiri is believed to have been the creator of the Detroit underwear bomb as well as explosives that were packed into printer cartridges bound for Chicago in 2010.