| Brother ready to kill brother for Islam May 16th 2012, 18:31 http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis...2081337077980/ Quote:
It was a combination of U.S. and Saudi intelligence work that uncovered the latest terrorist plot seeking to target a U.S. commercial aircraft, this time with a more sophisticated and harder-to-detect underwear bomb.
Fortunately, we again were one move ahead in the chess match we are playing with al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, as that group mounted yet another failed effort to strike out at the United States.
AQAP was the same group responsible for the failed 2009 Christmas Day underwear bomber attack on a U.S. airliner and the failed 2010 effort to place printer cartridges laden with explosives onboard cargo planes.
The master bombmaker in all three cases was Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, 30, a Saudi, operating out of Yemen. He is a highly skilled and self-taught (via manuals and the Internet) explosives expert who is determined to pull off a successful attack against the United States.
Asiri proved his loyalty to AQAP by engaging his own brother, Abdullah, to be a suicide bomber. Donning an explosive device designed by Asiri, Abdullah was to assassinate a member of the Saudi royal family -- Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the deputy minister of the Interior.
In August 2009, to gain access to the prince, Abdullah claimed he was defecting but would surrender only to the prince. The body search given Abdullah before seeing the prince failed to discover the explosive device hidden in his underwear.
Gaining access, Abdullah told Prince Nayef other AQAP members were ready to defect; they simply awaited Nayef's call to a cell number to assure them safe passage. That call achieved the wireless connection by which the explosive device was detonated. Abdullah was killed instantly; the prince was slightly injured.
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