Comment: What Official? Does an official - official have an official name?
Officials said the plot involved a bomb that improved on the one that had been sewn into the underpants of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who failed in a plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009. That device did not detonate.
Comment: A new and improved Underwear bomb. Have they switched from boxers to briefs?
This bomb had a more refined detonation mechanism and was "totally non-metallic," which officials told NBC News would have made it more difficult to detect by traditional screening processes.
Comment: Thus, we are indirectly being told that (soon) everyone will be needing to use the Body Scanner.
A U.S. counterterrorism official told NBC News there were "refinements on reliability" in particular that made this bomb more sophisticated and more likely to explode.
Comment: How much sophistication can a man stuff into a pair of underwear? Are our minds too feeble to be allowed a generalized schematic?
Comment: FBI Agent, Senior U.S. Intelligence Official, Senior Official, Officials Believe...
The Authorities have Official Titles, so you better believe them. However, we don't know who they are, whether their minds are mush or whether, as usual, this is another attack on our basic sense of well-being. Certainly you've heard the term fear-mongering.
"..there is evidence.." Where in any of all of this is there real, hard, factual, name-based, objective, physical evidence? Is it just another case of WMDs?
The Underwear Bomber - Crushing Freedom With Phony Arab Terrorism