Underwear Bomb

From Yahoo:
"US sends airport security guide to other countries"

In the wake of a terrorist bomb plot disrupted by the CIA, the U.S. advised some international airports and air carriers Tuesday about security measures for passengers traveling to the U.S. The guidance from the Transportation Security Administration was a reminder of methods the U.S. provided to these international airports and carriers in the past six to eight months to help protect against threats from liquid explosives and explosives hidden inside a person's body or clothes or in printer cartridges. All are methods officials said al-Qaida's spinoff group in Yemen has considered for plots against the U.S, according to an American official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the details of the guidance. The CIA recently foiled a bomb plot in Yemen in which officials say a suicide bomber was to have detonated an explosive on a U.S.-bound flight. Despite the discovery of a sophisticated new al-Qaida airline bomb plot, congressional and security officials suggested there was no immediate need to change airport security procedures, which already subject many shoeless passengers to pat-downs and body scans. The CIA, with help from a well-placed informant and foreign intelligence services, conducted a covert operation in Yemen in recent weeks that disrupted a nascent suicide plot and recovered a new bomb, U.S. officials said. They said the bomb represented an upgrade over the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. The new bomb was also designed to be used in a passenger's underwear, but this time al-Qaida developed a more refined detonation system. Before the bomber could choose his target or buy his ticket, however, the CIA moved in and seized the bomb. The fate of the would-be bomber remains unclear.

^ It seems that the majority of these terrorists are coming from Yemen and surrounding countries so you would think that any plane bound for or from the US would take anyone with a passport from Yemen and surrounding countries and give them additional security checks (100% checks) including their baggage. Also anyone who has travelled to Yemen and the region in the past decade should be included. I don't understand why the government feels so confident. They merely found the bomb and not the bomber. I wouldn't feel secure until they catch him as he can just make another bomb and try again. ^

http://news.yahoo.com/us-sends-airport-security-guide-other-countries-192820853