and just hours after shutting down embassies and consulates in 19 cities in the mideast and africa for the rest of the week. mike baker, former cia covert operations officer and president of diligence llc, a global intelligence and security firm, joins us with more. thank you for joining us, mike. i want to start first with this liquid explosive. what do we know about it, and who is making it? how dangerous is it? well, al-qaeda s always been very experimental in terms of trying to identify new delivery mechanisms for explosives. so we ve known for a long time, i mean, you look at the underwear bomb, their experiments with are referred to as body bombs, bombs that are actually put inside the suicide bomber s body. we ve also known that they have been working on liquid explosives, and so this is a carry-on from that. it s interesting that we re providing so much information about in this threat. i m not sure that that s
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actually necessary. we seem to be unable to keep secrets anymore when it comes to the actual specifics of threats. but, you know, now they ve been talking about this, and so what they re trying to do is develop a liquid explosive that would not be detectable what they understand as being standard procedures and capabilities right now. and that could include either liquids in the form of a bottle posing as a drink, it could be liquid, interestingly enough, that they actually put clothing or other materials into. then that liquid dries, and suddenly you ve got a sweater or whatever it may be that s coated heather: and undetectable by, at least here at home, tsa when you go through the security at the airports. right. and this is a constant struggle, a constant battle in the world of counterterrorism. you re always you don t want to be in a reactive mode, so we spend a lot of time within the community trying to understand what may be the next threat. so it s not as if we re just s
diplomatics post throughout the arab world have been shut down for the week. initially it was one day. but they ve expanded it through the week. this morning the news is that the department of state has ordered all personnel out of the embassy of yemen because of a high threat level there. apparently they ve already been flown out. the department of defense does have some personnel left on the ground there in yemen. also all members of the united kingdom staff have been evacuated as well. this as news comes from cbs that apparently terrorists could already be in place. they re just waiting to be told do it. andrew: abc news is reporting that terrorists could be using, quote, an ingenious and undetectable liquid explosive in which their clothing is dipped into the liquid and they put it on and the liquid dries and it looks normal you and don t know it s there and it goes off. gretchen: a guy named ibrahim
well, i mean it s a liquid explosive. and it s carried in various separate components, and at least if we go by the model of omar abdulmutallab, those components are only combined when that individual is on board the aircraft. again, the actual instructions for how they built this, aqap published those instructions on the internet. and they published them in english with the note that they were hoping that other people would take these designs and replicate them. and there have been other incidents that, unfortunately, have suggested that perhaps that is the direction in which we re going. there was an individual stopped at one point traveling through somalia carrying what appeared to be some kind of liquid explosive inside his clothing. let s hope these are isolated circumstances. that is part of the issue that aqap, al qaeda in yemen, has tried encouraging other terrorist factions to take up this particular recipe and use it in their own operations.
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