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Understand, which was put on that airliner in february of 2016 was put inside the dvd drive of the laptop. so theyre looking at new innovative, inventive ways to hide bombs on laptops. it should also be -- >> as you mention this, were looking at the footage of the hole in the fuselage of that flight from mogadishu to djibouti last year. and as barbara starr mentioned that was one of the wake-up calls. the question now and the fear now is could that plan come to fruition on a flight going to the ...

Sophisticated devices, concealing bombs inside electronics. they have a master bomb maker ibrahim al asiri, a saudi whos very good at building these kind of devices. and for years has been developing underwear bombs, shoe bombs, even the group has experimented with surgically implanting devices inside people so that they can get them on planes. theres intelligence thats come out on that. and this is a group which is believed to have shared this technology with a number of other al qaeda affiliat...

Certain other parts of the world including places like dubai and abu dhabi, those state-of-the-art systems are actually very good at detecting the kind of explosives that groups like al qaeda in yemen are developing, even when theyre concealing them inside laptops. the key technology here is called explosive trace detection technology. that involves the gate -- a laptop or some other electronic laptop device being swabbed and then a machine being used to analyze whether theres any explosive resi...

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Against passengers hands and carry-on luggage to see if there is any signs of explosive materials and residue. >> shepard: arent they already using this technology? the thing in the back of the security area, right? >> it is. >> shepard: swab thing. >> have you seen it before. right this at the main security check point that we all have to go through. right now the t.s.a. says its screeners will be pushing around carts with these devices on them and they will be everywhere. >> well, it will be u...

And as barbara starr mentioned that was one of the wake-up calls. the question is could that plan come to fruition on a flight going to the u.s. and has that technology improved since that attempt? >> ever since the attempted bombing of that airliner in somalia in february 2016 theres been concern that al qaeda or one of its affiliates would replicate that attack on a western passenger jet somewhere. thats not materialized yet, but theres been a significant concern about that given the sophistic...

Techniques, the intelligence suggests. they are obtaining detection systems to try to probe their weaknesses. and so theres significant concern that they may stage future attempts to try to get a bomb onto a western passenger jet. but at the same time the state-of-the-art systems which are deployed in airports in the united states, in europe and certain other parts of the world including places like dubai and abu dhabi, those state-of-the-art systems are actually very good at detecting the kind ...

And they can actually, these machines, detect a trillionth of a gram of residue. so theyre very, very good. >> the group that is believed to have the highest level of bomb-making expertise is aqap. thats essentially al qaeda in yemen. tell us more about them and how they developed this expertise. >> al qaeda in yemen are at the center of the concern when it comes to this threat. they are significantly ahead of isis when it comes to developing sophisticated devices, concealing bombs inside electr...

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