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U.S. officials confident drone strike killed chief al Qaeda bomb maker
Source: CBS News
By DAVID MARTIN CBS NEWS August 20, 2018, 7:18 PM
U.S. officials confident drone strike killed chief al Qaeda bomb maker
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials are confident that al Qaeda's chief bomb maker Ibrahim al-Asiri has been killed by an American drone strike in Yemen. After Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011, al-Asiri might well have been the single most dangerous terrorist in the world.
"Probably the most sophisticated terrorist bomb maker on the planet. Incredibly creative, incredibly innovative," said former CIA deputy director Michael Morell.
Al-Asiri designed the so-called "underwear bomb," which nearly took down a U.S. airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009. The plot failed only because the young man wearing the bomb failed to detonate it properly.
One year later, the Saudi-born al-Asiri nearly pulled off another audacious attack by hiding explosive devices in printer cartridges being shipped on cargo planes to the United States. The devices got through airport security in London, and were only discovered because of a last-minute tip.
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U.S. officials confident drone strike killed chief al Qaeda bomb maker
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials are confident that al Qaeda's chief bomb maker Ibrahim al-Asiri has been killed by an American drone strike in Yemen. After Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011, al-Asiri might well have been the single most dangerous terrorist in the world.
"Probably the most sophisticated terrorist bomb maker on the planet. Incredibly creative, incredibly innovative," said former CIA deputy director Michael Morell.
Al-Asiri designed the so-called "underwear bomb," which nearly took down a U.S. airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009. The plot failed only because the young man wearing the bomb failed to detonate it properly.
One year later, the Saudi-born al-Asiri nearly pulled off another audacious attack by hiding explosive devices in printer cartridges being shipped on cargo planes to the United States. The devices got through airport security in London, and were only discovered because of a last-minute tip.
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Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ibrahim-al-asiri-chief-al-qaeda-bomb-maker-killed-in-u-s-drone-strike/
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