Watch for Hamas-linked CAIR to haul out its “entrapment” playbook and hit the ground running. “CIA unraveled bomb plot from within,” by Greg Miller for the Washington Post, May 8 (thanks to all who sent this in):
The latest al-Qaeda bomb plot targeting U.S. aircraft was unraveled from inside the terrorist group by operatives “” including a double-agent “” working on behalf of the CIA and its counterparts in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, said U.S. and Middle Eastern officials.
The Saudi service played a particularly important role in penetrating al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen and recovering the explosive device, according to officials who described an elaborate espionage operation in which the CIA tracked the bomb’s movements for weeks and then killed suspected plotters in a drone strike after the device was seized.
Senior U.S. officials continued to withhold certain details, including the location and status of the individual “” described by officials as a Saudi informant “” who penetrated al-Qaeda posing as a willing suicide bomber then turned over the device to authorities after leaving Yemen….