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Of afghan territory. ryan. >> ivan watson with the latest on the violence in afghanistan. thank you. al qaedas master bombmaker may be dead according to a u.n. team that tracks terrorist groups. al asiri is one of the most dangerous operatives alive. he may have been killed last year. he was behind the underwear bomber in 2009. the u.n. report gave no indication how al asiri died or who was responsible. there have been counterterrorism strikes to rule out other terrorists in yemen. a report ...

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Well, trying to contain the network means more raids. weve had raids over the last three days since this attack took place on monday evening. we had more raids this morning, not in manchester, but in another city in the northwest as well. and weve had another arrest this morning. so, in total, ten people have been arrested. two of them have been released without charge, which means, as you said, there are still eight people who currently remain in custody. but what is crucial here is that author...

Get pieces of this device, thats very helpful for the investigation, in terms of trying to determined the signature and who the actual manufacturer of this may be. >> exactly. i have worked with scotland yard a couple of years ago with one of their detectives that was amazing and took prepaid cell phone calls and the rest of it and they pieced together a suicide bombing, this was in lebanon, but its remarkable once they get into the metadata, get into the signature of the bomb, get into cctv cov...

It. and if in fact there was a master bombmaker, i think theyll be able to identify them. >> what kind of an effect do you think this will have in britain, politically and otherwise? >> reporter: politically, it has caused the suspension of the election campaign. dont forget theres a general election on june 8 here, its been suspended and the parties are not cam paining. i must say, in terms of security and a little bit of a political shot across the bow, the home secretary here today expressed,...

One of my personal favorites. were talking about tupperware with the guy, yes, the guy, known as aunt barbara. we had so much fun. i hope youll stick around for that. >> oh, we had wine and everything. look at that. >> my favorite. >> and aunt barbara was a crowd favorite. >> yes. but first, lets talk about some new details about what al qaedas top bombmaker is working on for the next attack against the u.s. >> sobering news. it involves planting bombs in people as well as in pets. heres abcs ...

-- the attempted assassination that did blow up against this saudi official. one other thing, saudi official, saudi intelligence reportedly cooperated with the u.s., chris, in trying to find this suicide bomber and actually find the device. and it has been suggested to me, and we need more corroboration of this, that finding the suicide bomber and the device did lead to this sundays attack in yemen on a leading al qaeda official, reportedly the man who replaced al awlaki as the leader of al qaed...

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every day about 1.5 million americans board airplanes. this morning they have a big question. is it safe to fly? no doubt theres good reason for that concern. this new plot centered around a nonmetallic explosive designed to slip through airport detectors similar to a bomb aboard a flight in 2009. a malfunction may be the only reason those passengers survived. the latest plot also targeted an international flight coming into the united states. that was foiled two weeks ago. the investi...