to the united states from ten middle eastern and north african airports. demanding instead that they be stored in checked luggage. elevated intelligence that we re aware of indicates that terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation and are aggressive in pursuing innovative methods to undertake their attacks to include smuggling of explosive devices in various consumer products. there was credible and specific intelligence that isis would try to attack aviation assets and a hint from a top u.s. commander about why the accelerated erts effort on the ground in syria against the group. there is an imper active to get isolation in place around raqqah. because our intelligence feeds tell us that there is a significant external operations attacks planning. reporter: al qaeda s affiliate in yemen has for years
airports. demanding instead that they be stored in checked luggage. elevated intelligence that we re aware of indicates that terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation and are aggressive in pursuing innovative methods to undertake their attacks to include smuggling of explosive devices and various consumer objects. officials have told cnn there was credible and specific intelligence that isis would try to attack aviation assets, and a hint from a top u.s. commander about why the accelerated effort on the ground in syria against the group. there s an imperative to get isolation in place around raqqah because our intelligence feeds tell us that there s a significant external operations attacks planning. al qaeda s affiliate in yemen, aqap, has been for years actively trying to target
u.s. commander about why the accelerated effort on the ground in syria against the group. there s an imperative to get isolation in place around raqqah because our intelligence feeds tell us that there is a significant external operations attacks planning. reporter: al qaeda s affiliate in yemen, aqap, has for years been actively trying to target commercial airliners destined for the u.s. looking for ways to create bombs that contain little or no metal content to evade airport security measures including hiding exclusives in the batteries of electronic devices like laptops. and in february of 2016 a wake-up call when a laptop bomb according to somali authorities was used to blow a hole in this somali passenger jet. the plane landed safely despite the attack, claimed by the al
the group. there s an imperative to get isolation in place around raqqah. because intelligence feeds tell us that there is a significant external operations attacks planning. al qaeda s affiliate in yemen has for years been actively trying to target commercial airliners destined for the u.s. looking for ways to create bombs that contain little or no metal content to evade airport security measures. including hiding explosives in the batteries of electronic devices like laptops. and in february 2016, wake-up call when a laptop bomb according to is a kblal authority was used to blow a hole in the is a mally pass engr jet. it landed safely, according to alshe bob. explosives were in space by
aware of indicates terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation and are aggressive in pursuing innovative methods to undertake their attacks to include smuggling an explosive device in various consumer objects. reporter: officials have told cnn there was credible and specific intelligence that isis would try to attack aviation assets and a hint from a top u.s. commander about why the accelerated effort on the ground in syria against the group. there s an imperative to get isolation in place around raqqah because our intelligence feeds tell us that there is a significant external operations attacks planning. reporter: al qaeda s affiliate in yemen, aqap, has for years been actively trying to target commercial airliners destined for the u.s. looking for ways to create bombs