The TSA Would Not Have Been Able To Detect The Latest Al Qaeda Underwear Bomb

Photo: Ibrahim Al-Asiri. Reuters

Undie Bomb Is Hide & Eek! -- New York Post

He could have breezed through security at any airport.

A terrorist wearing the latest underwear bomb would not have been caught by the TSA’s most conscientious human screeners or its highest-tech fullbody scanners, experts told The Post yesterday. But the country ducked a disaster by employing an age-old weapon: a double agent.

With the help of American allies in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the secret agent inserted himself into the terrorists’ secret inner circle, and became so trusted, the thugs accepted his offer to board a US-bound plane wearing the bomb.

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My Comment: It's too late to stop this story, but this info should not be publicized.

Update: Andrew Malcolm in his latest post sums it up perfectly.