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>> it was a new type of explosive that we had never seen and either attempted in the u.s. or around the world by terrorists. so all of our explosive detection equipment which screens over a million checked bags every day just in the u.s. wasnt calibrated to detect that. >> reporter: john pistole said that device had what he called a double initiation system. two syringes of chemical detonators instead of one. and, he says, al asiri encased that bomb in household caulk, so the explosive vapors co...

And either attempted in the u.s. or around the world by terrorists. so all of our explosive detection equipment which screens over a million checked bags every day just in the u.s. wasnt calibrated to detect that. >> reporter: john pistole said that device had what he called a double initiation system. two syringes of chemical detonators instead of one. and, he says, al asiri encased that bomb in household caulk, so the explosive vapors couldnt be detected by machines or dogs. has this young mas...

A threat on america or more on this civil war almost happening in iraq now that killed over 1,000 people last month, brooke. >> and paul, back to you. talking about this mastermind, bombmaker, al asiri who put this bomb on his brother, if you can just characterize for me, this group, al qaeda on the ararian peninsula. clearly they seem hellbent on using airliners as an example. they are constantly the group trying to stay one step ahead as far as their own detection. are they younger? are they o...

With his own brother? >> it says that hes absolutely ruthless. not only is he ruthless, he is, according to leading explosive experts in the west, really good at what he does. hes proud the most sophisticated devices ever seen from al qaeda. >> reporter: last year u.s. officials say he was behind another foiled plot to send another bomb in the underwear of a terrorist on a commercial plane bound for the u.s. the head of the tsa called that a next gen device. >> it was a new type of explosive tha...

Originate? >> reporter: well, brooke, it seems that the threat originates in yemen. theres a lot of concern because it may be linked to the chief bombmaker of the group in yemen, ibrahim asyria. hes the mastermind behind those three attempts against u.s. airliners. three plots against u.s. airliners in recent years. hes been able to build the most sophisticated devices ever seen from al qaeda devices which are very difficult for detection, scanner equipment to pick up. so a lot of concern that h...

Absolutely ruthless, he is, according to leading explosive experts in the west, really good at what he does. hes proud the most sophisticated devices ever seen from al qaeda. >> reporter: last year, u.s. officials say al asiri was behind another foiled plot to send another bomb in the underwear of a terrorist on a commercial plane bound for the u.s. the head of the tsa called that a next gen device. >> it was a new type of explosive that we had never seen and either attempted in the u.s. or arou...

Account of bin ladens life after 9/11 when he sought and found refuge in pakistan and chronicles incompetence on behalf of the government officials who allowed the criminal mastermind to live undetected in their country for nine years. then to top it all off, fail to detect and respond to a u.s. raid on its own soil that killed him. the report calls it a case of government implosion syndrome, to put it mildly. exposed by journalists at al jazeera, it gives us a fascinating account of how bin lad...

Were back. an exhaustive bin laden report kept secret by the government has been exposed. the 300-plus page document contains a remarkably detailed account of bin ladens life after 9/11 when he sought and found refuge in pakistan. it also chronicles an astounding level of incompetence on behalf of government officials who allowed the criminal mastermind to live undetected in their country for nine years. and then to top it all off, failed to respond to a u.s. raid on its own soil that killed him...

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Civilian and military leadership. calling the episode a national disaster. it appears to be a story of complacency, ignorance, negligence, incompetence and irresponsibility and possibly worse. >> the report shows that the civilian and military authorities were asleep at the wheel. they failed to do their duty, failed to coordinate against the militants and the terrorists inside their own country. >> reporter: michael leiter, then national counterterrorism director was in the situation room the n...