A would-be "underwear bomber" involved in a plot to attack a US-based jet was in fact working as an undercover informer with Saudi intelligence and the CIA, it has emerged.
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Citing US and Yemeni officials, Associated Press reported that the unnamed informant was working under cover for the Saudis and the CIA when he was given the bomb, which was of a new non-metallic type aimed at getting past airport security.
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US officials have said the plot was detected in its early stages and that no American airliner was ever at risk.
UK Guardian
Fast and Furious.I perhaps am a bad American for admitting this, but I truly do not know what to make of the now-almost-weekly announcements by one law-enforcement organization or another that they've foiled another terrorist plot. Last week, we had the FBI sting of the saps in Ohio who the FBI accuses of wanting to blow up a bridge. And on Monday evening, the CIA announced that it had thwarted what news reports called, with the straightest of faces, a new and more sophisticated underwear bomb.
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I've always had my doubts about these FBI sting operations, where some G-man sets up a hapless malcontent and fills him full of arrant bullshit about rocket-launchers and bringing down the infidel, and the guy says, "Yeah, let's do it!" and ends up in Pelican Bay for the rest of his life. Is it the FBI's job to go around and find everyone in the country who can be convinced by a hot meal and new shoes that he can be a world revolutionary hero? What happens, I ask again, if one of these FBI-sponsored plots goes off the rails and actually comes to fruition?
Charlie Pierce
And by the way, since body scanners are not going to work for these “new and sophisticated” bombs, what next at the airport? Not that the fact that they don't work if you strap your bomb to your side stopped the Fatherland from purchasing the invasive and mostly useless machinery.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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