Al Qaida 'bomber' was CIA informant

Details have emerged of how the CIA fooled al Qaida over the terror network’s plot to bring down a plane with a nearly-undetectable bomb.

Al Qaida 'bomber' was CIA informant

Details have emerged of how the CIA fooled al Qaida over the terror network’s plot to bring down a plane with a nearly-undetectable bomb.

US intelligence learned last month that al Qaida’s Yemen branch hoped to launch a spectacular attack using a new bomb aboard an airliner bound for America.

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