05.07.12
Republic totters on news of refined underwear bomb!
Al Qaeda’s barrel-scrapers continue to be portrayed as capable of posing a huge threat to this country. Now virtually destroyed by US operations, a handful of al Qaeda piss ants in a couple countries continue to putter with things that don’t work for shit.
So today, again, on how desperate and low on capability the terror organization is, working on new (!) and improved (!) underwear bombs and finding the appropriately mentally enfeebled people to carry them:
The CIA foiled a plot by al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen to bomb a U.S.-bound airliner around the one-year anniversary of the killing of its former leader Osama bin Laden, The Associated Press reported.
American officials said the plot involved a bomb with a design that upgraded the underwear bomb taken aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009. That explosive device failed to detonate …
The AP reports the improved bomb had a more refined detonation mechanism, but was still intended to be hidden in a passenger’s underwear …
In an exclusive meeting, a senior U.S. intelligence official told NBC News that Hassan al-Asiri — the so-called “master bomb-maker??? for al-Qaida in Yemen — posed the single most dangerous threat to the United States …
Asiri designed the first underwear bomb that failed over Detroit and he was also the maker of the printer ink cartridge bombs that were discovered before they were shipped to the United States.
Refining the detonator on the underwear bomb. Imagine the painstaking and brilliant work that such a project must involve. Where does al Qaeda find such innovative men of action?
Potential headline next week: Drone strike kills suspected underwear bomb boffin!
John Robertson said,
May 7, 2012 at 11:22 pm
I see history is being re-written. According to AP http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hS2rvpBcC746LmcdfR-dPVoSa6Gw?docId=22014bc6f5974e77aa9c00c572ebafd9 when writing about the previous underwear bomb and the printer cartridges ‘Both were nearly successful’.
Meanwhile, in the UK, 7 people arrested under terrorism legislation have been charged with mislabelling parcels.
George Smith said,
May 8, 2012 at 1:14 pm
Yes, the idea is to get stupid people, of which there is no shortage, to believe an entire country can be threatened by feebles with ever more ineffective and pathetic attempts at bomb making. This works under the advantageous idea that a busted watch is right exactly two times a day, so perhaps one day in the future al Qaeda will get lucky. However, it must be hard to recruit foot soldiers because some have grasped the idea that the underwear bomb has a good chance of not going off, or if going off — not taking down anything except hurting the wearer terribly, and guaranteeing he spends the rest of his life in a SuperMax. For nothing.