Page 2 - Learning Enemy News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

according to "the new york times" but also the information that helped the cia carry out a drone strike against the top al qaeda operative. now, we don't have the name or nationality of the double agent and this of course is a highly sensitive situation. so we want to be careful about what we say, but some extraordinary details have already been leaked out to a number of publications. "the new york times" reports the bomb itself was sewn into underwear so that it would have been difficult to detect. even in a patdown. undoubtedly could have brought down a plane according to a senior ...

sensitive situation, so we want to be careful about what we say. some extraordinary details have already been leaked out to a number of publications. "the new york times" reports the bomb itself was sewn into underwear so that it would have been difficult to detect even in a patdown and undoubtedly could have brought down a plane, according to a senior american official. congressman peter king of new york is chairman of the house security committee. again, there's a lot that cannot be discussed. so we're leaving it up to the experts to tell us what they can. congressman king joins us...

everyone, it's 10:00 here on the east coast. they have foiled a terrorist plot to blow up an airliner, they're not saying where, oar when it happened. here's what we know, according to the fbi an improvised explosive device was seized and fbi officials are investigating it. it's a nonmetallic explosive similar to the one the underwear bomber used in his failed attempt in 2009. similar but not the same. the plot has the hallmarks of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. and president obama was briefed about the threat in april. chairman of the homeland security committee has been detaild...

briefed on the details and joins us on the phone. >> i've just discussed this. it's a nonmetallic device that was intended to be put on an american bound airline. it never made it to the airline, it's right now, as you said, being tested and analyzed by the fbi. a concern would be that being nonmetallic as to whether or not this would affect the security in our airports. this is an ongoing operation. this particular part of it occurred about -- sometime last month. sometime in april. it's not over as far as the operation itself, which is why you're seeing very few details being given...

we are joined by congressman king on the phone. what's the latest you can tell us? >> we spoke with napolitano. a nonmetallic device that was intended to be put on a american-bound airline. it never made it to the airline. it's being tested and analyzed by this fbi. obviously a concern would be that being nonmetallic as to whether or not this could evade security in our airports. that's a really concern. also, this is an ongoing operation. this particular part of it occurred about some time last month. some time in april. but it's not over as far as the operation itself which is why ...