Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo at the
Associated Press were first to report today
that the CIA claims to have "thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's
affiliate in Yemen" to bomb a plane headed for the US, using a bomb with
"a sophisticated new design" that would not contain metal. The attack
was to have taken place near the one-year anniversary of the killing of
Osama bin Laden. The design is said to have been an improvement over the
plot that failed on a plane over Detroit around Christmas, 2009.
Because it did not contain metal, the new design may have thwarted
current airport screening protocols, but it's possible that the newer
forms of full-body scanners could detect such a device... or not.
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