Ok.. So no one "bit" on my challenge to uncover the glaring contradiction in that LA Times article, I'll point it out..
"The informant also convinced members of the Yemeni group that he wanted to blow up a U.S. passenger jet on the first anniversary of the U.S. attack that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. They outfitted him with the latest version of an underwear bomb designed to pass metal detectors and other airport safeguards, officials say.
The informant left Yemen and delivered the device to his handlers, and it ultimately went to the FBI's laboratory in Quantico, Va. Intelligence officials hoped to send him back to Yemen to help track more bomb makers and planners, but the leak made that impossible, and sent Al Qaeda scrambling to cover its tracks, officials said."
How do you send a man, who's assigned mission by his Al Qaida leadership was to engage in a Martyrdom attack, thereby killing himself and blowing up a plane, back to "track" more bomb makers??
If I were the bombmaker, my first question is "why are you still alive?".. My second question would be "Where is the prototype bomb I gave you to conduct the attack?"
And the final question, before I sent him into the loving hands of my counter-intelligence and interrogation team.. "how long have you worked for the CIA?"
Therefore, this article, if correct, suggests that the informer was an expendable asset for both his Al Qaida handlers, as well we as the CIA, who's apparently mission imperative was to obtain that bomb for study.
To claim they were going to send him back in, and that the suggested AP leak prevented that, is illogical on it's face.
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