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well, it s it is a problem. as one of our guests just noted, you know, with the al shabaab attack just over a year ago the individual who is detonating the explosive device, they picked a very specific location on the plane to to detonate. additionally, timing was a factor. one of the reasons why the plane was able to land was that the plane hadn t yet reached cruising altitude, so if you have a checked explosive device, you don t know where that explosive device is going to be placed on the plane, and you also have a lot less control on when it s going to detonate, so it is a very valid point that it is an enhanced security feature to ensure that an individual is not able to take a device on to the plane with them where they have the ability to place it on the plane where they want and detonate when they want to detonate. congressman, stand by. we ll have much more on the breaking news. we re also following multiple breaking stories of the russian ....
Better able to deal with this threat than airports in the middle east or africa or asia? yes, i think that is a fair generallizati generalization and i ve been at airports in southeast asia as well which have very high levels. it s not just the machine at the airport or the man or woman behind the counter. it is as all the speakers here tonight, all my colleagues, it s multi-layered intelligence, so you ve got an idea of who is going through the airport, who is boarding the plane, who is doing the security checks, what machines are being use and have the machines been tampered and what s the airline security itself like, and when you do start talking about european airports at u.s. airports, north american in some parts of asia and australia you are talking about a higher level of integrated intelligence and security and that s what is skrushl here. i mean, you ve talked about the ....
Ever since 9/11 this has been a constant object of fascination for many different terror groups, from al qaeda in the arabian peninsula who were experimenting as you heard from phil mudd, with liquids and with underwear bombs to isis who managed to bring down a russian plane in the sinai peninsula with explosives placed in a soda can, and now to this more sophisticated apparently laptop threat, which as you mentioned al shabaab appeared to abuse in somalia, and it was very lucky in that case, wolf, that the plane wlags still flying at a low enough altitude that even though that bomb blew open a large hole in the wall of the fuselage, the pilot was still able to land plane. one other thing i would mention is when you look at the will remnants of what we re seeing of isis in mosul and you look at the weapons factories that they have, they are not just building crude rockets anymore, wolf. they are building high-tech ....
Afraid that people who work at the airport could smuggle a bomb on a plane, is that what you re saying? there is a deep concern that beyond just the sophistications of the devices that they have, some of these are very wealthy countries that have some of the late equipment but there s also a concern about the insider threat at these airports. phil mudd, how does the intelligence community, the law enforcement community track these kinds of terror developments? there s two ways you track them. one is pretty basic and pete hit the nail on the head. there are very few bomb-makers who can do this. we re not that you can begun an unsophisticated explosive device that you put in the middle of the road to blow up a car. there s very few people that can do this, so there s people in the intelligence community trying to develop the precise intelligence to identify the people so the u.s. military or the intelligence community can kill them. there s a broader question and this is going to g ....
Accelerated effort on the ground in syria again the group. there s an imperative to get isolation in place around raqqa rnl becau because our intelligence feeds tell that is there s significant external operation attacks planning. reporter: al qaeda affiliates in yemen aqap for years has been actively trying to target commercial airliners destined for the u.s. looking for ways that contain bombs that contain little or no metal content to evade airplane security measures including hiding explosives in the bat rivers electronic devices like laptops, and in february 2016 a wake-up call when a laptop bomb, according to somalia authorities, was used to blow a hole in the somali passenger jet. the plane landed safely despite the attack claimed by the al qaeda affiliate al shabaab. cnn has learned the explosives ....