CNSNews.com - Al-Qaeda Determined to Succeed, Analyst Says: "(CNSNews.com) – The failed attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day sends the “chilling message” that al-Qaeda has not given up on its desire to attack the United States, despite earlier failures – and that potential suicide bombers are getting through screening, a security analyst said Sunday.
The Detroit incident occurred nearly eight years to the day after Richard Reid’s failed attempt to destroy an aircraft on a transatlantic flight, using explosive hidden in his shoes.
Like Reid’s device, the one allegedly used by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 contained the explosive chemical pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), a component of the plastic explosive Semtex, according to the FBI. Abdulmutallab apparently used a syringe containing a liquid trigger in his attempt to detonate it."
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