Officials say British intelligence recruited a British citizen to go to Yemen and pose as a suicide bomber, disrupting an al Qaeda plot. (ABC News)
Al-Qaeda Leaders Believed That British Double Agent In Underwear Bomb Plot Was From Radical Islamic Family -- The Telegraph
Al-Qaeda terror chiefs believed that the British double agent who foiled their underwear bomb plot came from a family with radical Islamic ties, The Sunday Telegraph has been told.
He was recommended by a close relative who was trusted by leaders of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the network's Yemeni wing, according to US intelligence.
His British passport made him attractive as a recruit for a suicide mission as he would be able to board a flight to America under the visa-waiver programme.
But AQAP strategists were persuaded that he was a true believer willing to blow himself up on a plane to the US by what they believed to be his reliable family roots.
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My Comment: It is a shame that this operation was terminated because of leaks from Washington. From what I have been reading, this mole was incredibly successful in penetrating to the inner core of Al Qaeda in Yemen.
Update: Al-Qaeda will expose double agent's identity, security chiefs fear -- The Telegraph
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