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Separately. we are allowed to keep ipad in our bags because they are smaller, thinger. maybe there's a way to have terrorists pry those open and replace batteries with plastic explosives, right? >> we heard about the underwear bomber and the shoe bomber. and then in 2010 there was bombs being put into printer cartridges caught by the u.k. i mean, we don't know what the next phase is, but the main point here is to understand that there are always going to be those one step ahead and we have to react to that. for example n this country we had 9/11. afterwards we thought, we need to beef up airpo...

Vulnerabilities that have been there all along are still there. why don't we keep trying? the efforts in 2009 with abdul matulab to the underwear bomber on the flight bound for detroit. the printer cartridges. i think they are looking at that not a lot has changed and if they don't step up security on the in-bound u.s. flights, there will still be a good way to get material on board. >> you worked for the cia. when you look at this, what kind of intelligence leads to a move like this? >> well, first of all, tom is absolutely right. we are very vulnerable with bombs. i mean, they use a particul...

Attacks which killed ambassador chris stephens, shawn smith, and ty woods and glenn dortie. >> in two years, he was a senior al qaeda reader for yemen. a similar plot using printer cartridges. transferred to kuwait, former detain 220, abdullah al raje. he encouraged others to launch suicide strikes against americans. a leading counterterrorism analyst says the obama white house should take a page from history. >> both the taliban and al qaeda and arabian peninsula benefited from those transfers.

Traffic accident with a hellfire missile fired by a predator drone and they were killed. so the assistance to yemen to the united states has been ongoing for a long time. then in the recent past, we have the underwear bomber on christmas day 2009. a year later in 2010 we had the attempt to mail printer cartridges with petn, a powerful explosive. and the same explosive that the underwear bomber had. and those were destined for the u.s., specifically a jewish community center in chicago. so this has been a continuing attempt now in what has been in the peninsula to attack the u.s. they've probab...

Aggressive groups, if you will. al qaeda and the arabian peninsula has been targeting the u.s. for a while. the underwear bomber in 2009, the printer cartridges attempted to be mailed to the u.s. a couple years ago. so this group has been continuing to attempt to directly attack the u.s., where other groups around the world, sometimes do, sometimes are more interested in their local political situation. >> uh-huh. all right. tom fuentes, thanks so much in washington. >> you're welcome. now to that urgent race to find more surrivers on that south korean ferry that capsized this week. the deat...