interrogating him because there s an abc report this morning that apparently there are other guys with other devices. if you interrogate that guy, our guest last week, the way jose rodriguez used to, you may get some good information before it s too late and one of those body bombs goes boom. here s the thing, now we know there s other guys out there and we know this guy got his own ghost sign. pick an airline and pick a flight. good luck. make sure it s going to america. let us know how it went. what are the other guys going to do and where are they going to go? sleeper cells maybe. we know this guy that was killed met with umar farouk abdulmutallab, the crotch bomber and he met with bin laden and he was able to take him out, our guys that are c.i.a. are able to take him out in yemen. what the c.i.a. is doing is they can t take at least they re killing them. do they have this guy captured? we ll continue to follow this
priority. the c.i.a. intercepted the bomb in yemen before the would be bomber even purchased the ticket. counterterrorism officials say the device was likely a refinement of the underwear bomb similar to the failed christmas underwear bomb attempt over detroit in 2009. the device was recovered from a raid on an al-qaida in the arabian peninsula camp. officials say that the device is now being analyzed in quantico. the plot itself indicates that these terrorists keep trying. they keep trying to buy more and more perverse and terrible ways to kill innocent people. now, a government source familiar with the intelligence tells fox news the operation is ongoing. and it involves countries, the source says or adds, rather, there is a second threat stream coming out of the middle east involving surgically implanted body bombs. counterterrorism may see the device as the work of the man
a second threat out in the middle east involved surgically implanted body bombs. white house has confirmed and president was briefed about the plot in april. this is news comes on the heels of a very disturbing news report from the washington post that revealed that the obama white house is secretly high level detainees from gitmo in order to appease the afghan government at the negotiating table. these are the same members that harbored al-qaeda in afghanistan prior to the 9/11 attacks. president spoke about the u.s. government sit-downs with the terrorists. my administration has been in direct discussions with the taliban. we ve made it clear they can be a part of this future if they break with al-qaeda, renounce violence and abide by afghan laws. many members of the taliban from foot soldiers to leaders have indicated an interest in reconciliation.
i had a conversation with the government source who is familiar with the intelligence. and what they told me is that when they specifically ask the senior administration officials about the device that was recovered in yemen, they were told this operation is ongoing and that other countries were involved. in addition, i was told that there was a second thread stream that was being hun tored and that this thread stream involved body bombs or surgically implanted devices. that had been tracked for at least three weeks. in addition this person asked about the suicide bomber who was going to wear it and they were told, quote: no need to be concerned about this person anymore. they would not elaborate. i was also told that this was not revealed earlier by a senior administration official because they said they did not want to compromise sources and methods which this idea that it remains an ongoing operation. what we don t know tonight, shepard, is how credible they deem this intelligence t
bomber, that this was a way to upgrade the technology into an ie d and explosive device. what do you know? just speaking to a senior administration official tells us while there are many similarities to the past bombs we heard out of aqap, there was differences to this which is why they want to take the time to being make sure the fbi goes through the forensicing. we have heard a number of threats about body bombs and senior administration officials tell cnn this was not intended to be a body bomb. this was more in line with the sort of underwear bomber type of thing. look, they really feel strongly this is a success. they worked with their international partners, make no mistake about it, the best internal service against this target is the saudi service. we know that the saudi service is tipped off the americans when it came to the cargo plane threat and worked with them, and the head of the saudi service, muhammed benaif was the target of the one of the al bombs so they