have suggested that perhaps that is the direction in which we re going. 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. let me ask but the future of terrorism. when you go to bed at night, you think about it, an old question. is this the kind of spot opportunity where somebody s going to get some training, is going to find a willing recruit, with a limited amount of very state-of-the-art equipment, they re going to it s not going to be 9/11 again. it s not going to be the towers, it s going to be one person, perhaps, destroying a whole airplane filled with perhaps 300 people. that s what the next target will be. let s hope so. let s hope so. hope so? why would you hope f
tongs just the breaking news, the cia discovered and thwarted a plot by a member of al qaeda, or a splinter group in yemen. al qaeda in yemen, to get in to an airline, the passenger to get past surveillance, to go past the equipment of the tsa over there. to get on a plane. my question to you is how do these devices work? how can a passenger carrying something so small in his clothing, in his underwear, that s capable of blowing a hole in an airliner? 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 mutallab, those components are only combined when the individual is on board the aircraft. again, the actual instructions for how they built this, aqap published those instructions an 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
something so small in his clothing, in his underwear, that s capable of blowing a hole in an airliner? 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
administrator with the plot and contributor, kip hau lee. what happened in that summer of 2006, leading up to the plot and the foiling of the plot? well, al qaeda figured out a brand-new liquid explosive, more powerful than anything our western scientists knew about. they trained up english guys and sent them over to put together a cell to sneak the bombs on that are invisible to security measures. then they would knock down a series of planes, ten, 12, they really wanted 19, knock them down over the atlantic and they would disappear off the radar. you wouldn t know what happened. you would know you lost ten, 12, 15 airplanes. they were going to do it at once? right. how did you break in?
security in rome is on alert after mumbai terrorists say they did it. their goal? to create headlines to say we are here and can strike however we want and whenever we want. italian police are ready as 50,000 christians head to st. paul s square to hear the pope s message. police are looking for four men who entered the city to stage a holiday terror attack. the men are believed to be the same members of the pakistani militant group behind the 2008 attack that killed 166 people in mumbai. here in the u.s. a holiday alert to travelers. the tsa is paying close attention to insulated therm ost thermoses. the items are not banned but will need additional screening. what s the big deal about the insulated containers? well, it is a great way to hold a liquid explosive. often an improvised explosive like we have seen al qaeda use