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Officials: Al-Qaida bomber was CIA informant
Breitbart ^
| MAY 7, 2012
| EILEEN SULLIVAN, MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN
Posted on 05/08/2012 3:29:05 PM PDT by RobinMasters
U.S. and Yemeni officials say the supposed would-be bomber at the heart of an al-Qaida airliner plot was actually an informant working for the CIA.
The revelation, first reported by The Los Angeles Times, shows how the CIA was able to get its hands on a sophisticated underwear bomb well before an attack was set in motion.
Officials say the informant was working for the CIA and Saudi Arabian intelligence when he was given the bomb. He then turned the device over to authorities. Officials say the informant is safely out of Yemen.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive intelligence matter.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: RobinMasters
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posted on
05/08/2012 3:30:15 PM PDT
by
boomop1
To: RobinMasters
The source and intent are suspect then.
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posted on
05/08/2012 3:32:00 PM PDT
by
allmost
To: boomop1
Obama will take credit for it in his next speech!!
To: RobinMasters
By the time October rolls around, the MSM won’t know what to report on next... the 0.01% unemployment, the 99% reduction in government spending or the dozens of daily terror busts personally conducted by Colonel Obama.
To: RobinMasters
If the CIA is smart, then they released this even though they found the bomb through other means thus making Al Qaida suspicious of all of their suicide bombers. And if unicorns crapped skittles we would not have to grow any other food.
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posted on
05/08/2012 3:37:07 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
To: RobinMasters
Al-Qaeda was created by the CIA. How ironic!
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posted on
05/08/2012 4:00:19 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: RobinMasters
As sheriff Pepper would have said, “A secret agent, on whose side!”
To: KarlInOhio
There is other food besides Skittles tm.?
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posted on
05/08/2012 4:03:20 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: RobinMasters
The agency recovered the bomb in recent weeks, but it's not clear what happened to the would-be suicide bomber. The bomber "is in no position to harm us," Rogers said.I guess this update explains that. /s
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posted on
05/08/2012 4:06:04 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: DownInFlames
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posted on
05/08/2012 4:06:17 PM PDT
by
ltc8k6
To: Claytonbridge
Agent In Chief, 0bama is on it!
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posted on
05/08/2012 4:08:22 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: Cementjungle
Now that Khadafi is room temperature and Hugo is being zapped who is buying all of the fancy uniforms?
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posted on
05/08/2012 4:16:14 PM PDT
by
ptsal
(E)
To: Claytonbridge
This guy will be dead soon.
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posted on
05/08/2012 4:24:57 PM PDT
by
boomop1
To: RobinMasters
Now we’re supposed to believe he had anything at all to do with AQ.
The ever-changing stories change as needed to make Fraud Hussein look better.
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posted on
05/08/2012 4:30:15 PM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: RobinMasters
so they busted somebody who worked for the CIA is the way I see it. this whole story is suspect. I believe none of it.
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05/08/2012 4:30:27 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 0bie don' t eat my dog!)
To: ptsal
Now that Khadafi is room temperature and Hugo is being zapped who is buying all of the fancy uniforms? Perhaps the army of poll-watchers (NBP) that we'll see everywhere on election day.
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posted on
05/08/2012 5:54:58 PM PDT
by
RedMDer
(https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93)
To: RobinMasters
It does seem that way too much about this story leaked way too early. AP apparently had the story Friday and held it. If any of this had gotten out, that double agent would be dead, and the asset, the “underwear bomb” would still be in Yemen.
Washington is far too leaky to do serious espionage. Heads need to roll over this.
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05/09/2012 4:12:28 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Rush: If Ward Churchill had a daughter, sheÂ’d look like Elizabeth Warren.)
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