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Decision to bring the surge troops home this fall. shepard: the transportation security administration did not properly test screening designed to detect nonmetallic underwear bombs like the ones that officials say al qaeda planned to use in the latest foiled terror plot. this is out of a new congressional report. today a joint house committee grilled officials from the t.s.a. and the department of homeland security about the security scanners in many of our nation s airports. lawmakers also blasted the tsa for wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. in fact, we re told more than $180 million worth of screening equipment is sitting unused at some warehouse in texas. doug mckelway with the details. is he live in washington tonight. hello, doug. good evening, shep. congressional investigators learned of this waste of taxpayer money. 5700 pieces of security equipment sitting idol in that texas warehouse through a whistle blower. when congressional investigators went to the w ....
Underwear bomb safely out of yemen. but officials are warning us now there are still believed to be other new and improved underwear bombs out there. the feds say this new device has a better detonator than the one that failed to go off on a flight to detroit on christmas day of 2009. it also contains no metal, so it could, in theory, get through some airport security checkpoints. but experts say they re not sure whether those new full body scanners could do the trick. the chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in our washington newsroom man a live, what a victory this sounds like, at least on the surface, catherine. it is, shep. fox news has learned that elaborate sting allowed it to be infiltrated. turned over the device ultimately to u.s. authorities. this is a major coo because yemen is driven by tribal alliances where the area where al qaeda is operating and creating devices like this one comprised of small villages ....
the u.s. and saudi intelligence says relief is still mixed with fear. the plot itself indicates that these terrorists keep trying. they keep trying to devise more and more proverse and terrible ways to kill innocent people. and it s a reminder as to why we have to remain vigilant. al qaeda and its affiliates can me it s a size. they are constantly trying to catch up. whenever it appears we have them boxed eed in, they find a new method. they are sophisticated people. they never stop. this plot is said to be the work of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula meaning yemen. we re following the take down with barbara starr at the pentagon. what do we know about the device? reporter: the fbi is in possession of the device and trying to determine whoa made it and how it was made. according to the fbi, the latest indications are it was very similar to previous devices that al qaeda and yemen has used. most likely with very little metallic content or no metallic content. th ....
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 you re seeing very few details being given out. obviously the questions to your judgment on what use can say or will say. is it known who made this bomb? bomb makers tend to have a certain signature. there are some bomb makers in yemen who are well known. is it known who made this? there are two things i can say. one is that the person who had the bomb, we no longer have to be concerned a ....
al-zawahiri has not laced that group effectively, is that correct? he s not laced the group together as effectively as bin laden. all the affiliates have sworn loyalty to him so he does have some control or influence over the organization. but we see a lot more spreading of the group and decentralization across north africa and the arab world. in chronicling all the pursuits of the top terrorists, are you under the belief that new york is still a prime target and hitting the u.s. is stale paramount. absolutely. we see groups in the arabian peninsula based in yemen looking at a range of type of attacks from bombs inserted into the human body cavities to pens and cameras. they are desperately trying to conduct attacks against the homeland. we have that bomb maker that did the shoe bomber is still out there, right? the ones that was doing the ink jets to put into those planes on those cargo planes, he s still out there. right. the same individual that was involved in the under ....