CIA thwarts Al Qaeda Underwear Bomb Plot near Anniversary of bin Laden's Death

Alicia Powe | May 8, 2012
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a sophisticated new Al Qaeda bomb was confiscated after the CIA unraveled a terror plot by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using an underwear bomb around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.

 A team of FBI experts are examining whether the bomb could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane, 

 

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