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