{"id":28948,"date":"2012-05-07T15:46:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T22:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=28948"},"modified":"2012-05-15T19:28:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T02:28:55","slug":"cia-thwarts-new-al-qaeda-underwear-bomb-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/cia-thwarts-new-al-qaeda-underwear-bomb-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA thwarts new al Qaeda underwear bomb plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA thwarted a plot by al Qaedas affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a new design, a U.S. counter-terrorism official tells CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>Officials deny there was ever any immediate threat to the public.U.S. officials say the plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009. This new bomb was also built to be used in a passengers underwear but contained a more refined detonation system, the AP reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-201_162-57429468\/cia-thwarts-new-al-qaeda-underwear-bomb-plot\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=1f694075-fda6-49aa-a526-e031d34626b8\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA thwarted a plot by al Qaedas affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a new design, a U.S. counter-terrorism official tells CBS News. Officials deny there was ever any immediate threat to the public.U.S. officials say the plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[14],"tags":[21,1127,906,4724,31,4728,27,30,274],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28948"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29007,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28948\/revisions\/29007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}