Beware “Underwear 2″: TSA Chief Offers Rare al Qaeda Bomb Details [View all]

[The Straight Story]

Beware “Underwear 2″: TSA Chief Offers Rare al Qaeda Bomb Details

A "next generation" device that could have slipped past airport security, and the evil genius behind it

For many Americans, airline security is an onerous and even excessive burden. But in remarks at a national security forum on Friday, Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole illustrated why the federal government is still on high alert. Speaking in unusual detail, Pistole offered specifics about an underwear bomb devised by a master al Qaeda bomb-maker in Yemen meant to be exploded in an airliner over the United States last year. The plot was foiled thanks to a double-agent inside al Qaeda’s Yemen branch, in a case that has also become the subject of a controversial Justice Department leak investigation.

In an exchange with ABC News reporter Brian Ross at the 2013 Aspen Security Forum, Pistole described the bomb as “Underwear 2,” a successor to the underwear bomb worn Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to detonate on Northwest Flight 253 near Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. Abdulmutallab’s bomb fizzled, severely injuring his groin but no one else.

Pistole described the May 2012 bomb as “a next generation device” that was “new and improved in many respects” from the Christmas 2009 bomb. Designed by one of the most wanted terrorists in the world, Ibrahim al-Asiri, the device featured “a new type of explosive that we had never seen,” Pistole said. “All of our explosive detection equipment… wasn’t calibrated to detect that. And all of our 800 bomb-sniffing dogs had not been trained for that specific type.”

http://swampland.time.com/2013/07/19/beware-underwear-2-tsa-chief-offers-rare-al-qaeda-bomb-details/

Wait, so there is a new most wanted terrorist in the world? Bet the NSA could find him in no time - just tap into my phone records or something.....

I think the answer is more spying and less freedoms. That one guy in 7 billion could be anywhere, right? Hell he might be working at the 7 eleven down the street as a cover.

This is why I don't buy and wear underwear. It could be a trap. Walking along and my undies explode. We need a 3 day waiting period to buy underwear and background checks (and close the yard sale/craig list loophole on em too).