Underwear Bomb Plot: The Yemen Connection

The World

The ‘underwear bomb’ plot is part of a bigger story about the growth of al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula.

Near East scholar Gregory Johnsen tells anchor Marco Werman that AQAP has grown fast since the first underwear bomb plot was foiled two and a half years ago.

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