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Video Shows Accused Christmas Day Bomber Training

WASHINGTON (April 26) -- A video has surfaced showing accused Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab training with al-Qaida in Yemen. The video, obtained and broadcast Monday by "ABC World News," shows the 23-year-old Nigerian firing weapons and speaking in Arabic about his impending attack. He is shown reading...

Nigerian Terror Suspect Is Talking, Officials Say

WASHINGTON (Feb. 2) -- The Nigerian man accused of trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day has been cooperating with investigators since last week, discussing his contacts in Yemen and providing intelligence in multiple terrorism investigations, officials said...

Details of Christmas Day Bomber Interview Released

WASHINGTON (Jan. 24) -- For hours after allegedly trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to blow up a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab talked and talked - to Customs officers, medical personnel, and FBI agents. He spoke openly about what he'd done and why, and provided valuable...

Bin Laden Threatens More Attacks on US

CAIRO (Jan. 24) - Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the failed attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas in a new audio message released Sunday threatening more attacks on the United States. However, a senior U.S. intelligence official in Washington said there is "no evidence whatsoever" that the...

Pakistan Is Still 'Heart' of Al-Qaida

(Jan. 20) – The attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S.-bound flight may have increased the visibility of the Yemen-based wing of Al Qaida, but Pakistan's tribal area remains the terrorist organization's strongest base of support, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said today. "I would still say the...

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05/17/12 Undie-bomb blabbering: No way to fight terror Source: New York Post - New York NY Whether the administration is too publicly forthcoming with its terror-fighting intelligence.
05/15/12 The Body Bomb â A New Terror Threat Source: Buzz Patrol Newsweek have revealed the details of a secret report which elaborates on the latest type of weapon that is being engineered by Al Qaeda's bomb expert Ibrahim al-Asiri.
05/12/12 The mad bomber Source: New York Post - New York NY Doctors use it to dilate the arteries of patients with angina.
05/11/12 Body scanners would not detect underwear bomb Source: Travel Daily News The bomb, a refined version of the so-called underwear bomb used by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in his Christmas Day 2009 attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253, is now at the FBI crime laboratories in Quantico, Virginia.
05/10/12 Double Agent Foils Panty Bomber Terrorist Plot Source: CafeMom In what sounds like the plot for the latest summer blockbuster, a terrorist attack was thwarted by a double agent, who alerted the CIA to al Qaeda's shenanigans.