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Sophisticated version of the underwear bomb, as you mentioned, that umar abu mu tal an was wearing on christmas day. like that device it had no metal parts and right now the united states is trying to see whether the device could have been detected by the full body scanners that are now deployed in many airlines, many airports for flights that are bound to the u.s. now they say they can't be certain but they suspect it's built by al qaeda's and yemen's master bombmaker, the same man who designed the underwear bomb, and also the bombs that were hidden in printer card ridge, toner cartridges tha...

That the plot was to happen around the one-year anniversary of bin laden's killing by the u.s. now, of course, that was last week, and they say that the plan was to get someone, a suicide bomber, to get on board an airliner coming to the u.s. now they say no specific airline or flight had been chosen, no ticket had been purchased, but they say that a suicide bomber had been recruited, and that's when intelligence stepped in, shut the plot down, and this is quite remarkable, actually recovered the device. now, it's described as a more sophisticated version of the underwear bomb, as you mentione...

In many airlines, many airports for flights that are bound to the u.s. now they say they can't be certain, but they suspect it's built by al qaeda's and yemen's master bombmaker, the same man who designed the underwear bomb, and also the bombs that were hidden in printer cartridge, toner cartridges that were sent on cargo planes, intercepted on flights that were destined for chicago. so it's described as a great success, chris, for intelligence, and a further sign that al qaeda in yemen is still the number one plot -- number one threat to the u.s. >> let me go to andrea mitchell for the politi...

2009 against a top saudi official, the son of prince nayyaf, the interior minister, who is himself a top counterterrorism official. he was injured in that attempted assassination in jeddah, saudi arabia. so you had three known instances with he did design bombs, one was the cartridge bombs that pete williams pointed out. the other, of course, was the underwear bomber in 2009. and then the successful attempt -- 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 fin...

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