Al Qaeda mag: Airline plots a "good bargain"

Remnants of the underwear and explosive device allegedly carried by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aboard Delta Flight 253.

/ FBI

(CBS News) The author of al Qaeda's latest bomb-making magazine said that the terror group will continue to pursue attempts to blow up U.S. jetliners and isn't concerned that such plots might be foiled because they represent "such a good bargain."

Abdullah Zul Bejadayn, believed to be a Saudi explosives expert who has been featured in previous bomb-making video tutorials, said in the second edition of "Al Qaeda Airlines" that the militants "do not mind at all in this stage if [plots] are intercepted. It is such a good bargain for us to spread fear amongst the enemy and keep him on his toes in exchange [for] a few months of work and a few thousand bucks."

A double agent working with U.S., Saudi and British intelligence recently infiltrated al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and thwarted a plan to use an underwear bomb to attack a U.S.-bound airplane - a plot similar to a failed attack on Christmas Day 2009. The agent volunteered to carry out the suicide mission, which originated in Yemen, and instead delivered the updated non-metallic explosive device to American officials.

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The latest al Qaeda publication outlines major plots from the last decade -the shoe-bomb plot in 2001, the attacks in Madrid and London in 2004 and 2005, respectively, among others - and discusses materials frequently used in constructing bombs and techniques for avoiding security, though Bejadayn said he "was instructed not to give much detail as the enemy is watching us closely in a bid to get a clearer picture."

CBS News national security correspondent Bob Orr reports that U.S. officials are aware of the publication but say it's not news that al Qaeda continues to target U.S. aviation. The recently thwarted plot out of Yemen demonstrates that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is working to develop explosives that can be smuggled past aviation checkpoints and onto U.S.-bound flights.

The chief bomb-maker for AQAP, Ibrahim al-Asiri, has quickly risen on the U.S. public enemies list. While al Qaeda chief Ayman al Zawahiri may be the world's "most wanted terrorist," sources say al-Asiri may actually be the most dangerous.

U.S. officials briefly thought al-Asiri was killed in the same drone strike last fall that eliminated AQAP operational leader Anwar al-Awlaki. But al-Asiri survived the September 30 attack.

Al-Asiri was the architect of the 2009 "underwear bomb" worn by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aboard Northwest flight 253. Al-Asiri also built the carefully concealed bombs, hidden in printers aboard two cargo planes in 2010. U.S. investigators suspect al-Asiri was behind the latest device which is now being studied by FBI explosives experts.

[venusvegasvada]

I hope when the missile hits this guy it digs an exceptionally deep hole. An explosion truly worthy of such a narrow minded, murdering coward.

[David_Tampa]

It always seemed to me that Osama wanted the US to get out of S/A. We did that a few years after 9/11. The attacks basically stopped. The following from Wikipedia...

Since Saudi Arabia houses the holiest sites in Islam (Mecca and Medina) — many Muslims were upset at the permanent military presence. The continued presence of US troops after the Gulf War in Saudi Arabia was one of the stated motivations behind the September 11th terrorist attacks[1] and the Khobar Towers bombing. The date of the 1998 United States embassy bombings was eight years to the day (August 7) that American troops were sent to Saudi Arabia.[2] Bin Laden interpreted the Prophet Muhammad as banning the "permanent presence of infidels in Arabia"

[David_Tampa]

It always seemed to me that Osama wanted the US to get out of S/A. We did that a few months after 9/11. The attacks basically stopped.

[julianpenrod]

So often, deceit, allowed to proceed its own way, manifest its wholrsale lies ever more overtly, tends to brand itself for the falsehood it is. The events of September 11, when they happened, were patently false. No attack of that kind and magnitude had ever been observed. What's more, it was all but guaranteed to do more harm than good for "terrorists", unleashingmilitary reprisal and calling for more security measures. And that's not including such things as a grainy film of men waiting to boad a plane being passed off as being of the "terrorists", the fact that they looked nothing like them being conveniently "explained" by the fact that they were wearing fake beards. Or Mohammed Atta being implicated because his wallet was "found intact, open to his i.d. card, sitting on a piece of rubble at the World Trade Center site". Despite the fact that he was supposedly in the fireball explosion and subsequent hours long burning! And convenitnely ignoring the fact that Atta was seen in Paris weeks after September 11!
Add to that the sudden explosion of "terrorist" events since September 11. London, Mumbai, Ft. Hood, Rafik Hariri, Benazir Bhutto, the "shoe bomber", the "underwear bomber", the "Times Square Bomber", the Ft. Dix plot, the Sears Tower plot, the plot to mail explosives in printer cartridges from Iraq to synagogues in the U.S. A century's worth of attacks in a decade! The supposed anger toward te U.S. was there vbefore 2001, the technology was there, yet it was only after September 11 that is was all released! That is an engineered manifestation, not an actual turn of events.
And, now, al Qaeda is presumably saying airline attacks are preferable and cost effective. With the constant ramping up on action against "terrorists", just referring to such attacks as a "bargain" is utter, indisputable proof that "terrorism" is a lie! There are numerus other alternatives that could cause at least as much carnage, much more simply and cheaply. Setting massive fires. Driving truck bombs into cities. Oklahoma City showed how much damage that could do, and there doesn't seem to be any security apparatus in place that would stop that from happening. Because the authorities know "terrorism" is a lie! Attacking soft targets like resorts. They don't even have to get on planes. A bomb could be sneaked, or driven, into an airport and blown up, with likely more casualties than any one plane. And, if they wanted to ply a plane into something, they could always use small private jet companies. They don't require security screening like the large airlines! Because they know "terrorism" is a lie.
Unfortunately, too many are too stupid to realize this, too weak-willed to turn from the indoctrination the corporatist Fascist New World Order unreels every day. And, of course, NWO quislings will take issue with the syayements here. But they will do it in the typical corrupt New World Order way. they have no truth to contradict these statements with, so they will resort to techniques of non argument, summary but unexplained dismissiveness, contempt, arrogance, viciousness, mockery, vulgarity. It is not certain how far along the surreptitious plan by the NWO is toward completing the wholesale enslavement of humanity, but ignoring these facts will certainly not necessarily cause them to retrench.

[David_Tampa]

Interesting reading......

[baileycccc]

Do you think al Qaeda offer their employees a retirement package?