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Thats in airports. bob, i dont know if our viewers around the world know this but that was your job to build and test, to understand these bombs back, you know, during your time at the cia. explain to us the level of sophistication when using the exact equipment we see in airports today. >> well, thats exactly it, george. they were very good to begin with. these are engineers. theres a saudi we know of who has got along very well in making airplane bombs. its technology that does go back 40 year...

Information or bomb residue and anything like that in. >> i think theyre still working on it youre right, thats the way to confirm, is to take the wreckage and see if you can have explosive residue and that sort of thing. thats in process. >> okay and as far as terrorists, if it was a bomb, who may be responsible? >> yeah. its a numb of suspects. we know theres a significant amount of terrorism in egypt. we know that al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and yemen has really been focused on airplane...

Serious setback for egypt as well as russia, and there will be consequences. >> such as? >> the russians, the way putin thinks, hes going to go stronger into syria and he will consider sending troops into syria. its not out of the question. the egyptians will crack down a lot harder. this really does change the game. i also think we have to look at aviation around the world. these airplane bombs we cannot completely defeat them even at the most sophisticated security checkpoints in europe and th...

Close, was taken over by al qaeda for a day and that was a serious battle for that town and we had to take again a precaution to pull out. theres nothing you can do about yemen, we didnt create the situation there, itsing civil war that goes back to the 70s and 80s. the question is how far will the shiia make it? theyre going to head to eden. theyre going that far south, will they take over that country, what will saudi arabia do? this is one of those messes thats beyond our help. >> and how pot...

Part slap in the face. it does many things for lake. it emboldens them, helps them to recruit people into the fold so, you know, they know what theyre doing on a world scale. >> bob, we know that the strikes destroyed the training facility as well as killing a number of militants. talk to us about the continuing threat that this terror group al qaeda in the arabian peninsula poses to the u.s. and other countries. >> well, i think its a significant threat. we know that al qaeda in yemen is capabl...

extraordinary details have already been leaked out to a number of publications. "the new york times" reports the bomb itself was sewn into underwear so that it would have been difficult to detect. even in a patdown. undoubtedly could have brought down a plane according to a senior american official. the congressman peter king of new york is the chairman of the committee and again, theres a lot that cannot be discussed so were leaving it up to the experts to tell us what they can. congr...

according to "the new york times" but also the information that helped the cia carry out a drone strike against the top al qaeda operative. now, we dont have the name or nationality of the double agent and this of course is a highly sensitive situation. so we want to be careful about what we say, but some extraordinary details have already been leaked out to a number of publications. "the new york times" reports the bomb itself was sewn into underwear so that it would have been difficu...

sensitive situation, so we want to be careful about what we say. some extraordinary details have already been leaked out to a number of publications. "the new york times" reports the bomb itself was sewn into underwear so that it would have been difficult to detect even in a patdown and undoubtedly could have brought down a plane, according to a senior american official. congressman peter king of new york is chairman of the house security committee. again, theres a lot that cannot be d...

congressman peter king in new york is chairman of the homeland security committee. hes been briefed on the plot and joins us on the phone. what are the latest you can tell us? >> i got briefed by secretary napolitano and john brennan. basically its a nonmetallic deaf vits, intended to be put on an american-bound airline. it never made to it the airline. its right now as you said being tested and analyzed by the fbi. obviously a concern would be that being unmetallic as to whether or no...

everyone, its 10:00 here on the east coast. they have foiled a terrorist plot to blow up an airliner, theyre not saying where, oar when it happened. heres what we know, according to the fbi an improvised explosive device was seized and fbi officials are investigating it. its a nonmetallic explosive similar to the one the underwear bomber used in his failed attempt in 2009. similar but not the same. the plot has the hallmarks of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. and president obama was...