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(CBS News) The Saudi double agent who infiltrated Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and ruined a plot last week to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner had provided information for two years, and it was shared with the CIA. The Saudi/CIA operation took a sudden turn when AQAP asked for a volunteer to smuggle a bomb onto an American jetliner. It was decided that the source would volunteer to be the suicide bomber. Instead, he delivered the newly-designed bomb to his U.S. and Saudi handlers. The source was debriefed for days. Information he gave was used to launch a drone strike in Yemen that took out Fahd al-Quso, a key commander for AQAP. But when the story of the unraveling of the airline plot leaked to the press, it also likely reached AQAP’s master bomb-maker, Ibrihim al Asiri. “The question is – was this operation leaked to the press too early for us to find the bomb maker and, if he’s still around in a year, that’s going to be a critical question everybody is going to ask about,” notes former CIA analyst Phil Mudd. Asiri is still at large and believed to be training others to build bombs using his designs. “You’ve got another wave of bomb makers we need to be worrying about,” says Frank Cilluffo, director 철원출장마사지 of the Homeland Security Policy Institute. “So, from my...
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