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Ridiculous. >> dana: i am surprised the emirates would be on the list. >> kimberly: the concern is they have developed a liquid explosive. ill kind of bomb makers working on the compound. perhaps -- al qaeda bomb makers. >> dana: if its underneath, its safer. if an explosion happens. >> juan: no, no, no. they were talking about the samsungs with the lithium battery. >> dana: you cant put it on a plane. >> juan: you can put it in your luggage and thats not great. >> greg: i am being told we must ...

That looked great. >> always my favorite part of an explosion is checking out the aftermath. >> sure. >> got to confirm the kill. >> thats right. >> this is definitely going to void the warranty. >> yeesh. >> nice hit, though, right? boom. looks like you know what youre doing. >> the illusion of confidence. never underrate it. blowing up turkeys and tv sets might suggest the emergence of a nontraditional action hero. im fine with that. however, every action trailer worth its salt needs to includ...

Moment for posterity. >> thats great. >> cool. that looked great. >> always my favorite part of an explosion is checking out the aftermath. >> sure. >> got to confirm the kill. >> thats right. >> this is definitely going to void the warranty. >> yeesh. >> nice hit, though, right? boom. looks like you know what youre doing. >> the illusion of confidence. never underrate it. blowing up turkeys and tv sets might suggest the emergence of a nontraditional action hero. im fine with that. however, ever...

Including a small number through the u.s. terrorists have come up with creative attempts to blow up commercial and cargo planes. there was the shoe bomber, liquid explosives plot, underwear bomber and a plan to smuggle a bomb in a printer cartridge. while it is not yet clear what type of explosives might have been used in a toothpaste plot, it is true small bombs can be dangerous. a bomb technician tells us the certain explosives in gel or paste form can be easily molded into a powerful bomb, fi...

U.s., those in the uk are only allowed a small amount of liquids angels in carry-on bags because of the threat of liquid explosives. this video shows the power and potential of a liquid explosive done for cnn at a new mexico lab. again, it just shows and it supports that the threat is real. that is where this new liquid scanning technology comes in. londons heathrow airport started installing new scanners just last week capable of scanning flyers, liquids. we know that the machine scans containe...

And just hours after shutting down embassies and consulates in 19 cities in the mideast and africa for the rest of the week. mike baker, former cia covert operations officer and president of diligence llc, a global intelligence and security firm, joins us with more. thank you for joining us, mike. i want to start first with this liquid explosive. what do we know about it, and who is making it? how dangerous is it? >> well, al-qaedas always been very experimental in terms of trying to identify ne...

Actually necessary. we seem to be unable to keep secrets anymore when it comes to the actual specifics of threats. but, you know, now theyve been talking about this, and so what theyre trying to do is develop a liquid explosive that would not be detectable -- what they understand as being standard procedures and capabilities right now. and that could include either liquids in the form of a bottle posing as a drink, it could be liquid, interestingly enough, that they actually put clothing or othe...

>> well, i mean its a liquid explosive. and its carried in various separate components, and at least if we go by the model of omar abdulmutallab, those components are only combined when that individual is on board the aircraft. again, the actual instructions for how they built this, aqap published those instructions on the internet. and they published them in english with the note that they were hoping that other people would take these designs and replicate them. and there have been other incid...

Have suggested that perhaps that is the direction in which were going. an individual stopped at one point traveling through somalia, carrying what appeared to be some kind of liquid explosive inside his clothing. lets hope these are isolated circumstances. that is part of the issue that aqap, al qaeda in yemen, has tried encouraging other terrorist factions to take up this particular recipe, and use it in their own operations. >> let me ask but the future of terrorism. when you go to bed at nigh...

Tongs just the breaking news, the cia discovered and thwarted a plot by a member of al qaeda, or a splinter group in yemen. al qaeda in yemen, to get in to an airline, the passenger to get past surveillance, to go past the equipment of the tsa over there. to get on a plane. my question to you is how do these devices work? how can a passenger carrying something so small in his clothing, in his underwear, thats capable of blowing a hole in an airliner? >> well, i mean its a liquid explosive. and i...