greatest most capable threat against the u.s. and u.s. interests around the world. and i think that s right, al asiri, this bombmaker is one of the reasons. second is, because they re able to project their power outside of yemen where these operations are going on in the south, right near the port of aiden, you know, you don t realize, it s a real hub. you got extremists from africa, off the coast of africa and somalia. you ve got them collecting from the arabian peninsula there. there really is infrastructure within yemen. and they re always refining their tactics. you remember a couple months ago we had a new threat alert that they had somehow refined shoe bombs to get past the detection we have at the airports. that s tied right back to al asiri. these are threats to the u.s. they want to get a shoe bomb on an american airplane. it s something they attempted
are the odds, one of the papers was casting doubt on that. malaysia was 60% muslim, why would al-qaeda try to alienate the them? . that is certainly a possibility we in the united states already have experts who know everything they need to know about that. as an investigator i can utilize those individuals as tools to carry out the investigation. do you think our government right now knows what happened and they re not sharing it with us? no, the titanic went missing in 1812, we didn t find it until 1985. what is interesting, when he was talking about that. sochi games were not that far back. there was chatter about a shoe bomb at that point. a shoe bomb can be used as a
one saying malaysia is 60 plus percent muslim. that is a good question and gets into the politics of the whole thing i m not sure. how do you look at that as an investigator? as an investigator i can utilize those individuals as tools oochl do you think the government knows what happened? no. the titanic went missing in 1912. we didn t find it until 1985. what is interesting is that soechy games were not that far back. there was chatter about a shoe bomb at this point. the question is how could it
that is another possibility. gregg: a gathering. quick question, peter. everybody under the impression after 9/11 the cockpit doors were reinforced to prevent a hijacking, what about that? that is another concern. if it turned out to be terrorism or something with intervention what happened with security? there has been critical lessons learned. there was talk about a plot, information came out of london last few days talking about an al qaeda member who talk about being in touch with malaysians using a shoe bomb to breach a cockpit to take an aircraft. that goes back a little ways but we know that is possible so there are ways to get into the cockpit. the possibility a pilot might let somebody and as we have seen. gregg: the other pilot was
the malaysian s mission? but badat answered, quote, i think it was to access the cockpit. if that was proving to be difficult for the group. the prosecutors said issue did you understand that the malaysians were also involved in an airplane plot? badat replied, yes. obviously that testimony has raised some eyebrows and it s worth opinioning out if a shoe bomb was handed to a malaysian group, one of those malaysians was a pilot, this all happened at the end of 2001. more than 12 years ago. thank you. a fox urgent now. a senior u.s. official tells fox news the uss kidd plans to leave the indian ocean in the next day or so if it is not successful in fining the missing malaysian airliner. the navy destroyer has been involved in the search for the jet for six days now. sources indicate the military will keep searching from the air. the destroyer is not leaving yet