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Officials: Al-Qaida underwear bomber was CIA informant

May 9, 2012

U.S. and Yemeni officials say the supposed would-be bomber at the heart of an al-Qaida airliner plot was actually an informant working for the CIA. full story

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Officials: Al-Qaida underwear bomber was CIA informant

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