So we have another bomb plot “foiled”:
The successful blocking of an ambitious Al Qaeda plot to bomb a U.S.-bound airliner was an international sting operation worthy of Hollywood, with spies tricking terrorists into showing their cards.
Saudi Arabia’s intelligence agency, working closely with the CIA, used an informant to pose as a would-be suicide bomber. His job was to convince the Al Qaeda franchise in Yemen to give him a new kind of non-metallic bomb that the militants were designing to easily pass through airport security.
But the double agent instead arranged to deliver the explosive device to U.S. and other intelligence authorities waiting in another country, officials said Tuesday. The agent is now safely outside Yemen and is being debriefed.
Experts are analyzing the sophisticated device at the FBI’s bomb laboratory at Quantico, Va., to determine if it really could evade current security measures. It appears an upgraded version of the so-called “underwear bomb” that failed to take down a passenger jet over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.
So, we’ve had four attempts to blow up a US plane:
- The Shoe Bomber. (Bomb did not work)
- The toner bomber. (intercepted)
- The 1st underoos bomber.
And now we have the 2nd underoos bomber.
I don’t know about you, but I’m beginning to wonder if the CIA is doing the same thing as the FBI, and finding a bunch of losers, and then build them up, so that they can have a high profile bust.
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And yes, those I forgot those folks who were drying those dumb ass liquid bombs which require us to buy overpriced sodas on the airlines.