what the wake-up call was for airport screeners. the big concern is from al qaeda in yemen. this group has had isis when it comes to the sophisticated devices. there is an expert bombmaker experimenting with shoe bombs and underwear bombs and surgi l surgically implanting bombs on humans. he has been sharing that intelligence. al qaeda in syria in 2014, were planning a similar laptop bomb. that group in yemen is richer now. better than 2009 and 2010 when it put together the printer bomb plot and underwear bomb throplo.
sophisticated devices, concealing bombs inside electronics. they have a master bomb maker ibrahim al asiri, a saudi who s very good at building these kind of devices. and for years has been developing underwear bombs, shoe bombs, even the group has experimented with surgically implanting devices inside people so that they can get them on planes. there s intelligence that s come out on that. and this is a group which is believed to have shared this technology with a number of other al qaeda affiliates in the region, including al qaeda s affiliate in syria, the so-called khorasan group, a group that western intelligence learned in the summer of 2014 were plotting to get a bomb inside electronics in some kind of laptop or other device onto a plane. and actually, that plotting led to new rules being introduced by the tsa for foreign airports
ever since 9/11 this has been a constant object of fascination for many different terror groups, from al qaeda in the arabian peninsula who were experimenting as you heard from phil mudd, with liquids and with underwear bombs to isis who managed to bring down a russian plane in the sinai peninsula with explosives placed in a soda can, and now to this more sophisticated apparently laptop threat, which as you mentioned al shabaab appeared to abuse in somalia, and it was very lucky in that case, wolf, that the plane wlags still flying at a low enough altitude that even though that bomb blew open a large hole in the wall of the fuselage, the pilot was still able to land plane. one other thing i would mention is when you look at the will remnants of what we re seeing of isis in mosul and you look at the weapons factories that they have, they are not just building crude rockets anymore, wolf. they are building high-tech
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coming up with more sophisticated devices. he s been experimenting, it is believed, with new generations of shoe bombs and new generations of underwear bombs. and brian todd joins us. now, what more are you learning about the airbus tail? anderson, in the course of reporting on this incident over the past couple of days, we ve learned that this very same aircraft in november of 2001 had what s called a tail strike. in that incident, it was landing in cairo. it was operated by another airline at the time. it was landing in cairo and the nose was too high. so, the tail struck the tarmac and it sustained considerable damage. now, airline officials of this particular russian airline say that that was completely repaired and that it passed all the inspections since then. but we ve had several airline security and safety experts tell us that in these inspections, it s very sometimes easy to miss maybe a slight fracture or other stress point in that part of a plane. and it could have gon