Posted on 05/08/2012 4:04:43 PM PDT by lbryce
The would-be suicide bomber dispatched by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda last month to blow up a United States-bound airliner was actually a double agent who infiltrated the terrorist group and volunteered for the suicide mission, American and foreign officials said Tuesday.
In an extraordinary intelligence coup, the agent left Yemen, traveling by way of the United Arab Emirates, and delivered both the innovative bomb designed for his air attack and critical information on the group’s leaders to the C.I.A., Saudi and other foreign intelligence agencies.
After spending weeks at the center of the terrorist network’s most dangerous affiliate, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the agent provided critical information that permitted the C.I.A. to direct the drone strike on Sunday that killed Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso, the group’s external operations director and a suspect in the bombing of the American destroyer Cole in Yemen in 2000.
He also handed over the bomb, designed by the group’s top explosives expert to be invisible to airport security, to the F.B.I., which is analyzing its properties.
Officials would not disclose the agent’s identity, nationality, or the intelligence service that recruited him, though they said it was not the C.I.A. The agent is now safe in Saudi Arabia, officials said. The bombing plot was kept secret for weeks by the C.I.A. and other agencies because they feared retaliation against the agent and his family.
Officials said Tuesday night that risk has now been “mitigated,” evidently by moving both the agent and his relatives to safe locations.
A senior American official said the device was sewn into “custom fit” underwear that would have been very difficult to detect even in a careful pat-down.
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Isn’t this the kind of intel that secret agents used to keep, you know, SECRET?
Things that make you go, “Hmmm...”
However, could also be a pseudo-op or false flag type of thing!
“Isn’t this the kind of intel that secret agents used to keep, you know, SECRET?”
Well,,,,, yes. But there may be some value in sowing distrust amongst these a-holes. I don’t know,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
He me nothing more than an agent of the Obama-Soros-Clinton-Secular-socialist-Islamist machine intended to draw attention away from Obama failures in time for the election.
There’s that...also it’s election season.
WHO IN THE HELL GAVE THIS INFORMATION TO THE NYT?
THAT SHOULD BE TREASON!
HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO WIPE OUT THIS ENEMY IF WE BLABBER ALL OUR TACTICS TO THE COCKROACHES?
THEY ALL NOW KNOW THAT THEY WERE INFILTRATED, BUT NO LONGER AS THE PERP IS NOW IN OUR HANDS.
IS ZER0 SO DISPARATE FOR RE-ELECTION THAT HE SPIKES EVERY FOOTBALL???
WHAT AN A-HOLE!
Something does’nt seem right about this story. It seem’s to manufactured.
Anyone else want to wager that our Dear Fascist Leader was not aware of this latest threat and CIA Intelligence coup when he made his announcement in AfGan last week while taking another victory lap?
IOW, it was nothing but headlines for Hussein’s campaign on our tax dollar.
This thing is total BS ... one of many “fake” things that are going to come out of this white house ... it started with the birth certificate ... and they’ll keep pulling this stuff as long as people believe it is real. Light off the underwear, I want to see it explode! The CIA gives a guy a bomb then “catches” him ... this is ludicrous. (Yes, I said the CIA gave it to him .. prove me wrong!).
thanks to the Slimes, he is a dead man now
The trumpet-call had let loose an enormous volume of noise. Already an excited voice was gabbling from the telescreen, but even as it started it was almost drowned by a roar of cheering from outside. The news had run round the streets like magic. He could hear just enough of what was issuing from the telescreen to realize that it had all happened, as he had foreseen; a vast seaborne armada had secretly assembled a sudden blow in the enemy's rear, the white arrow tearing across the tail of the black. Fragments of triumphant phrases pushed themselves through the din : " Vast strategic manoeuvre - perfect co-ordination - utter rout - half a million prisoners - complete demoralization - control of the whole of Africa - bring the war within measurable distance of its end victory - greatest victory in human history - victory, victory, victory ! "
And we disclose this information why? I mean, other than stupidity
In other words: Not an American.
This seems dumb to me. I mean hell, anybody can build an underwear bomb.
UB2.0 is supposed to be so much of a leap forward?
F that, run everybody coming in from the ME or looks like an IslamoNazi through some kind of radio cavity scan that assplodes assplosives before they get anywhere near North America.
I mean, what’s the downside?
Another CIA false flag. It never ends.
Tokyo Rose alive and well at the New York Times.
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