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Generations of shoe bombs, new generations of underwear bombs. reporter: also tonight, al qaeda s leader, i man al zawahiri in a recording we believe released sunday after the crash called on jihadists to fight the west and russia. no claim of responsibility from al qaeda in the sinai crash. analysts say, given that this would have been a huge terrorist success for al qaeda, their silence suggests they may not be responseible for this incident. investigators are looking at abnormal sounds around the time the plane disappeared. yes. russia s interfax news agency cites unnamed source saying the voice recorder captured uncharacteristic sounds the moment before the flight disappeared from radar. it s not clear what those sounds were. one analyst says it could reflect whatever catastrophic event was occurring. that s got to be a point of the investigation as well. let s go to our pentagon ....
Thinking you could get battery power on board a plane now and do damage? or some other triggering device. there have been cellphone bombs used in the past famously in 1996 but they have not been used often. the fear is al qaeda allies in syria have worked on now bomb designs. they are the ones that brought you the underwear bombs. you would think they would be focused on isil rather than attacking the u.s. homeland and dhs isn t saying this is imminent and not to panic, but if there is something to this, you almost wonder whether the recent success in iraq have pushed their al qaeda competitor ....
Effort. we need to quarterback this effort so that in a sense, the training, the intelligence, the lethal assistance, non-lethal assistance, the salaries all of this has to be done in a way that actually helps groups we re doing and insures that everyone is contributing in a consistent fashion. one of the problems with the effort to the syrian opposition has not just been that they have been fractured but that the effort to help them has also not been a coordinated one. now time to make that a very coordinated one. we need to run it. the $500 million is a good step but needs to be part of a larger plan. jenna: we re curious talking about the larger plan and friends we can rely on in the region. i hope you come back, ambassador, to do more extensive conversation about that. nice to see you as always. thank you. always my pleasure, thank you. jon: they tried sneaker bombs and underwear bombs. now the new security at airports with word that terrorists are working on bombs that could sli ....
Authorities in yemen are today beginning to acknowledge they may have a huge prize after reaching operations against al qaeda. they are now as we were initially reporting yesterday carrying out those dna tests to determine if this man is among the dead from that drone strike. his name, ibrahim squr, the bombmaker possibly responsible for making those underwear bombs. remember those used in detroit in 2009 on that plane, among other bombs? joining me now, we know this man has been in hiding for quite a while. this would be huge if they got him. yeah, no two ways about it, brooke. it would be absolutely massive. ibrahim is perhaps the most wanted man in yemen. the most high-value target in that country. which is full of high-value aqap targets. you look at the list of plots ....
Designs. this affects overseas flights coming into the u.s. of course, it is already tsa policy for passengers to take off their shoes going through security checkpoints to be x-rayed. a law enforcement official says that passengers as a result of this new warning may notice additional searches including explosive detection swabs. to be clear, there s no specific threat or plot known. an intelligence official told me this, quote, this threat is not specific or credible enough to require a specific response. they often issue an alert out of an abundance of caution. i spoke with cnn terrorism analyst peter bergen to get an understanding of what kind of groups would be capable of this. here s what he said. the dhs warning is nonspecific, but the universe of people who have known capably is not large. al qaeda in yemen continues to put underwear bombs on planes, continues to try to put cartridge bombs on planes. ....