Yemen underwear bomber a double agent

May 09, 2012 10:00

The suicide bomber dispatched by terrorist leaders of the Yemen-based Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula to blow up a United States plane was in fact a double agent who worked for the Saudi intelligence agency, a media report said.

The plot, unearthed in April, was made public on Monday after the Federal Bureau of Investigation said the bomb was similar to that of the underwear bomber of 2009, but was a bit more sophisticated and technically advanced.

According to the daily, after spending weeks at the centre of Al Qaeda's most dangerous affiliate, the intelligence agent provided critical information that permitted the CIA to direct the drone strike on Sunday that killed Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso, the group's external operations director and a suspect in the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.

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