TSA Chief: Al-Qaida Altered Underwear Bomb Formula

KIMBERLY DOZIER
huffingtonpost.com
July 27, 2012

U.S. security officials are on the lookout for a new type of explosive, after analysis of an upgraded underwear bomb intercepted by a CIA operation in Yemen.

Transportation Security Administrator John Pistole told an audience at the Aspen Security Forum that the device smuggled out by a double-agent in an operation earlier this year was an upgrade from the underwear bomb carried by Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to try to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas 2009.

“We found in the Underwear Plot, Part 2…that a different type of explosive had been used than the previous one,” Pistole said, “so we have gone back and recalibrated all the equipment and we have been working with our canine to detect this different type of explosive.”

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This article was posted: Friday, July 27, 2012 at 2:53 pm

Tags: foreign affairs, technology, terrorism

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