The August Attempt on Saudi Prince Mohammed - and the Link to Flight 253

ABC News ^ | January 3, 2010 | Jake Tapper

[Oldeconomybuyer]

National security sources tell ABC News that the al Qaeda terrorist who tried to kill Saudi prince and counterintelligence chief Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in August used the same technique -- an underwear bomb -- and the same PETN explosive that Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab tried to use in his attempted Christmas Day attack.

Within a week of that failed August attack on Prince Mohammed, President Obama dispatched his top counterterrorism and homeland security adviser John Brennan to Saudi Arabia to meet with Prince Mohammed to discuss the attempt, a senior administration official told ABC News.

That September visit "started the process by which we worked with Saudis on the forensics of the attack and the technique, which we did over the next several weeks," the official said. "That information was shared widely within the government."

In October, Prince Mohammed visited to U.S. as part of the "continued efforts to coordinate with the Saudis," the official said, with Prince Mohammed sharing more information on al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and also the new techniques.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Guess the 'system worked' to thwart 'an isolated extremist'.

[InterceptPoint]

'an isolated extremist'

Now that's not fair.

You are quoting Obama completely out of (the current) context. In fact you are running about 4 or 5 contexts late. That context was during the Coverup Context that was just prior to the The System Worked Context. That's so yesterday, so 2009. You need to keep up to date on important topics like this by reading more FR threads. LOL!!!

[KC Burke]

The family in control of Saudi Arabia has spent two hundred years in a symbiotic relationship with the Wahabist sect and now is, like Christendom, a chief target of the acidic product of that sect.