White House Adviser Briefed in October on Underwear Bomb Technique

[ptif219]

It appears the Feds should have been watching for this.

White House Adviser Briefed in October on Underwear Bomb Technique - Declassified Blog - Newsweek.com


White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan was briefed in October on an assassination attempt by Al Qaeda that investigators now believe used the same underwear bombing technique as the Nigerian suspect who tried to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day, U.S. intelligence and administration officials tell NEWSWEEK.

The briefing to Brennan was delivered at the White House by Muhammad bin Nayef, Saudi Arabia’s chief counterterrorism official. In late August, Nayef had survived an assassination attempt by an operative dispatched by the Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda who was pretending to turn himself in. The operative had tried to kill the Saudi prince by detonating a bomb on his body, but stumbled on his way into the prince's palace and blew himself up.
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Saudi officials initially thought the bomb had been secreted in the operative's anal cavity. But after investigating the matter more thoroughly, they concluded it had likely been sewn into his underwear, thereby allowing the operative to bypass security checks before his meeting with the prince. A main purpose of Nayef's briefing for Brennan was to alert U.S. officials to the use of the underwear technique.

 

[Oozlefinch]

It appears the Feds should have been watching for this.

White House Adviser Briefed in October on Underwear Bomb Technique - Declassified Blog - Newsweek.com

And what should we have done, subject everybody flying to a strip-search? Sheesh, and people already bitch because we ask them to take their shoes off.

 

[ptif219]

And what should we have done, subject everybody flying to a strip-search? Sheesh, and people already bitch because we ask them to take their shoes off.

Just saying the government knew about this type of an attack.

 

[Oozlefinch]

Just saying the government knew about this type of an attack.

Yea, well no kidding. Other then the location of the explosive, it was the same thing that Richard Reed tried in 2002.

Look, this is really no different then the crap that people throw at President Bush, saying that he should have known about 9/11. Simply because you know something can happen, and that you know others are talking about it, is not the same thing as knowing that an attack is comming, where it is comming, and when.

In fact, the reason why we are restricted in the amount of liquids we can bring with us on a plane is because of this type of explosive. So this capability has been known for years. That is not the same thing as having credible, clear, and concise intelligence that can be acted on.

 

[ptif219]

Yea, well no kidding. Other then the location of the explosive, it was the same thing that Richard Reed tried in 2002.

Look, this is really no different then the crap that people throw at President Bush, saying that he should have known about 9/11. Simply because you know something can happen, and that you know others are talking about it, is not the same thing as knowing that an attack is comming, where it is comming, and when.

In fact, the reason why we are restricted in the amount of liquids we can bring with us on a plane is because of this type of explosive. So this capability has been known for years. That is not the same thing as having credible, clear, and concise intelligence that can be acted on.

They knew about this guy even his father warned them. With this much info he should have been stripped searched before flying.