The Foiled Underwear Airline Bomb Plot: What Do We Know? | Talking Points Memo

It’s the latest underwear bomb plot that wasn’t.

An Al Qaeda plan to blow up a passenger jetliner running right into the hands of U.S. and U.S.-friendly officials, giving the U.S. intelligence community another victory just days after the one-year anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.


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