so did they do it to evade radar? maybe. maybe not the eyewitnesses might be able to pick it up. but who knows how big the area was. let s talk about another terror plot involving al-qaeda and osama bin laden. while we had one of these trials happening in new york, one of the experts who testified, one of the terrorists came forward and said, yeah, there was a plot that i witnessed, four or five malaysians were going to be equipped with a shoe bomb that would essentially get near the cockpit and blow open the cockpit to take over a plane. i m not sure if it applies here. but it s about ten years old. that s an example of a more sophisticated shoe bomber than the one we saw in early 2001 after 9-11. here is the biggest theory out there now that sends us into science fiction. yeah. actually involves phone jacking, cyber jacking. could this actually work? the theory now, as we ve read,
informant said that years ago at a terror camp, he was told to give a shoe bomb toç these four or five malaysian guys, they were going to use it to hijack a plane and it was part of a khalid sheikh mohammed plot hatched years ago but perhaps the news came out last week it s related. other thing we should be surprised by this information coming out, if you said to me september 10, painted a picture for me of what was going to happen the next day, would have thought you were balking. i think we need to look at this in terms of the geopolitical context and security context within the ring. if you look at what s going on in china, on march 1 there was a knife attack which killed 29 people there aimed at separating a group. in theç arabian peninsula they have a global jihad
telegraph. some guy in british custody who used to be an al qaeda operator in pakistan told a court that he met several malaysians in pakistan. months them, a pilot. they were talking about a plan to hijack an airplane. they were wondering how to enter the cockpit door? he gave them, he said, a shoe bomb he had made, a relatively small bomb, not big enough to take down the aircraft but powerful enough to break open the cockpit door. here is one potential theory. these guys broke into the cockpit, and maybe had one of the pilots cooperate with the idea that he might be able to save the airplane later. the next thing we have learned is that the airplane climbed to 45,000 feet. would that be a scuffle in
one used by richard reid to blow open the cockpit door in this case. this plan has been in place since 2005. but if his claims are true, why isn t al-qaeda claiming responsibility? let s ask the former head of the c.i.a. s bin laden unit and the first head of that, michael. why not take credit if terror is involved? i would suppose that if they went after the aircraft in the way they did, they want to use the aircraft again. if it hasn t crashed and if it s still intact, they clearly have other purpose for that aircraft or wouldn t have gone through the process of trying to hide it. khalid sheikh mohammed has been out of the pipeline for ten years. is it possible that they d be using an old plot? no, i don t think so. if this was an operation from al-qaeda or some other group, it s an extraordinarily professional one. it s something you would expect from an intelligent service or something like that. it s a very, very good operation. i don t mean to sound callus,
reporter indicated it could not have happened alone. it would probably take two people to fly the plane at the same time to actually get down to that second shutoff which is in the belly of the airplane. it also took a special wrench to do that so they think it would take at least two people working in concert. there is another theory that came up from the trial of osama bin laden s son-in-law. there was an al qaeda informant named sahid bedat, british born muslim from england. he said he was told in a terror trainingç camp in afghanistan to give a shoe bomb to some malaysians and told a court last week during the trial that four or five malaysian men planned to take a plane by using a shoe bomb to blow open a cockpit door. security agents say there is credible evidence that perhaps that could have been the truth. the disclosure though, in addition to being what a coincidence, he revealed