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Would-be suicide bomber himself. roger, tell us about this. it's amazing to have the guy, if you will, that was going to put on the underwear, who was going to blow up the plane, according to people who were working with him who ratted out this whole thing. >> this is a good news story. in some respects it's what we expect the cia to do, is get a source inside early on in any type of development of a terrorist plot. they were in so soon, and there was never a point when this became a credible threat because they knew what could happen and they disrupted it. >> the fbi agent said to the america...

Intelligence disrupted within al qaeda and the arabian peninsula base in yemen. today we learned the intelligence source was the would-be suicide bomber himself. roger cressey joins us with the latest. it's amazing to have the guy, if you will, that was going to put on the underwear, who was going to blow up the plane, according to people who were working with him who ratted out this whole thing. >> this is a good news story. in some respects it's what we expect the cia to do, is get a source inside early on in any type of development of a terrorist plot. they were in so soon, and there was ne...

hands. plus, an election of evil and a major change of course by a leading ally, france elected it's first socialist president in two decades, we're looking at what it means for the united states. i'm wolf blitzer, you're still in "the situation room." the vice president joe biden said over the weekend he's fine with gay marriage and arnie duncan says he believes gay and lesbians should be allowed to marry. putting him at odds with the president of the united states. jessica yellin is working the story for us. jessica, causing quite an uproar there, what's going on? >> reporter: this...

bomber, that this was a way to upgrade the technology into an ie d and explosive device. what do you know? >> just speaking to a senior administration official tells us while there are many similarities to the past bombs we heard out of aqap, there was differences to this which is why they want to take the time to being make sure the fbi goes through the forensicing. we have heard a number of threats about body bombs and senior administration officials tell cnn this was not intended to be a body bomb. this was more in line with the sort of underwear bomber type of thing. look, they r...

Moham mohamed. after years in custody looks like this. this was going to be held in criminal court. a federal court in manhattan was going to be the venue. after a political uproar of how awful it would be to try them in real u.s. courts, they reversed courts. it will be held at guantanamo. it will not be a real trial, it will be a military try bunal. they have produced results more lenient than those tried in real american courts. the fear of trying an important terrorism case in new york is such that they will be held offshore, they will be held in cuba. this week, there was a conviction in ...