Underwear Bomb Plot: The Yemen Connection
Yemeni Counter Terrorism Unit (Photo: Ammar Abd Rabbo/Flickr)
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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