Breaking - CIA foils terror plot

[malaise]

Here we go - An upgrade of the underwear bomber.
Breaking on Tweety now.
Considered a great success

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/07/al-qaeda-bomb-plot-foiled_n_1497734.html
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The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, The Associated Press has learned.

The plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009. This new bomb was also designed to be used in a passenger's underwear, but this time al-Qaida developed a more refined detonation system, U.S. officials said.

The FBI is examining the latest bomb to see whether it could have passed through airport security and brought down an airplane, officials said. They said the device did not contain metal, meaning it probably could have passed through an airport metal detector. But it was not clear whether new body scanners used in many airports would have detected it.

[Atman]

1. Bush called the CIA and told them about a tip he got from Cheney.

Obama is just spiking the football again.

[malaise]

4. Bwaaaaaaaaaah

[Lamm]

2. Beat you to the punch...

Already posted it in LBN..

Have a great day!

[malaise]

3. LOL

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. This is so divisive I tell you

and Obama had better not breathe a word about his success against terrorists or it will be spiking the ball.

[gkhouston]

6. "it was not clear whether new body scanners used in many airports would have detected it"

Govspeak for "we know it wouldn't have worked".

[malaise]

7. The body scanner is a cash cow

for the manufacturer. Nice racket that.

[Atman]

8. I'm sure the manufacture is a Bush crony.

Okay, I'm not "sure." But I'm pretty certain.

9/11 -- CHA CHING!

.

[malaise]

10. You betcha

Panetta to take questions at the Pentagon in a few minutes

[cherokeeprogressive]

9. I thought the WOT was over. n/t

[Blue Owl]

11. Operation Pantload Nugent

That's some explosive diarrhea in those drawers!

[Autumn]

12. Oh magic underwear.

Wait, is this a repeat??