From Jihad Watch:
Yemen/Chicago synagogue jihad bomb suspect blew up his own brother
For jihad, of course. "Yemen bomb suspect, Al Qaeda expert Ibrahim Hassan Tali al-Asiri, blew up his own brother," by Helen Kennedy for the New York Daily News, November 1 (thanks to Block Ness):
The Al Qaeda bombmaker thought to be behind the Yemen cargo bombs is so ruthless that he once slipped explosives inside his own brother's body to kill a Saudi prince. His brother managed to get face to face with the prince before a text message triggered the device, but he killed only himself. The August 2009 plot was the latest failed attempt by a Saudi bombmaker so skilled, daring and prolific that success is probably just a matter of time.
Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, 28, known by his alias Abu Saleh, also is suspected of sewing explosives into the crotch of the briefs that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, wore onto a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines jet on Christmas Day 2009....
Like the cargo bombs and the anti-prince device, the underwear bomb sailed past security, and 290 people would have died had Abdulmutallab not bungled the detonation....
Asiri and his younger brother, Abdullah, went to Yemen three years ago to join the increasingly dangerous Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Last year, he gave Abdullah a device containing about 3 ounces of PETN powder explosives to conceal inside his rear. The detonator was a chemical fuse that would elude metal detectors.
Abdullah posed as a penitent militant seeking to surrender in person to Prince Muhammed Bin Naif, the Saudi security minister who tries to reform terrorists....
Posted by Robert on November 1, 2010 10:48 AM
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