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The airplane. reporter: whoever built that bomb likely thought it would pass through an x-ray machine with the petn disguised as printer toner powder. randi kaye, cnn, new york. want to dig deeper on this with our terrorism analyst and paul chook cruickshank. paul, i mean, we ve talked a lot about groups and saw it there trying to use sophisticated methods, the ink jet cartridge. they say that s a relatively easy thing to make. and a relatively crude device. a very conventional device, meat and potatoes. the crucial factor here may be that they recruited an insider at the airport. and if you can do that, that s the holy grail for terrorist groups. because then you can insinuate the bomb on to a passenger aircraft. there have to be considerable concern that there could be other insiders at other ....
Were arrested by british authorities. charged with plotting to blow up as many as 10 flights over the atlantic simultaneously. their weapon of choice, explosive liquid smuggled on board in soda bottles. after that liquid was limited and by then, passengers were facing tighter security. shoes removed, laptops taken out, box cutters and lighters forbidden but terrorists were getting more creative. christmas day, 2009, another failed attempt using the deadly explosive petn. northwest airlines flight the 253 was going to amsterdam to detroit when a passenger tried his underwear.losives sewn into- he was sentenced to life in ....
If in fact, isis brought down metrojet flight 9268 it would be a success in a string of failures and close calls. more on the effort to bring down planes by randi kaye. reporter: december 22nd, 2001, just two months after the 9/11 attacks, american airlines flight 63 with 197 passengers and crew suddenly in trouble. passenger richard reid was attempting to detonate a plastic explosive called petn he concealed inside his shoes. passengers pounced and the flight headed from paris to miami was safely escorted by fighter jets to boston s logan airport. reid is a british citizen who converted to islam. he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. richard reid is an al qaeda ....
Of course the intelligence community was trying to find out if he was alive. he is a serious target because of his bomb making. as he serious target because he is a mastermine when it comes to trying to figure out ways to use petn for undetectible bombs. so by him coming out in this video, he is really putting himself at risk. i think it is a rather big surprise that he s come out with this written statement in the past few days. he s taken a very big risk in doing this. because presumably, he would need some kind of courier to transport this message. and of course, the cia got bin laden by tracking couriers. and he admits it in the statement that he ll be criticized by some jihadis, breaking this operational security. and the cia and other western intelligence agencies will be pouring over this statement. it is several pages long for ....
Vulnerabilities that have been there all along are still there. why don t we keep trying? the efforts in 2009 with abdul matulab to the underwear bomber on the flight bound for detroit. the printer cartridges. i think they are looking at that not a lot has changed and if they don t step up security on the in-bound u.s. flights, there will still be a good way to get material on board. you worked for the cia. when you look at this, what kind of intelligence leads to a move like this? well, first of all, tom is absolutely right. we are very vulnerable with bombs. i mean, they use a particular kind of explosive called petn. it can be poured into the sides of suitcases. a pound of it, even in the center of a plane is enough to bring a plane down. it is very hard to defend against. on the other hand, the good news ....