Bomb experts seek clues from device

FBI experts are picking apart the sophisticated new al-Qaida bomb to discover if it was capable of getting past airport security and blowing up a commercial plane.

Bomb experts seek clues from device
Tue, 08 May, 2012 - 11:41

FBI experts are picking apart the sophisticated new al-Qaida bomb to discover if it was capable of getting past airport security and blowing up a commercial plane.

The unexploded bomb represents an intelligence prize, the result of a covert CIA operation in Yemen.

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