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Americans terrified by a new al-Qaeda bomb
7/3/2014 1:25:12 PM
Americans said on Wednesday they would increase security at overseas airports with nonstop flights to their country, and officials cited their fears al-Qaeda operatives in Syria and Yemen were developing bombs that could be smuggled onto planes.
The new security measures would be required at airports in Europe, Africa and the Middle East that have direct flights, Americans officials said.
Department of homeland security said enhanced security measures would be implemented in the next few days at certain overseas airports with direct flights into America
It did not specify which airports or what countries would be affected, nor did it say what triggered the extra precautions.
"We are sharing recent and relevant information with our foreign allies and are consulting the aviation industry," DHS secretary Jeh Johnson said in a statement.
Johnson said he directed the transportation security administration to implement the measures in the coming days. The move comes during the summer travel season and days before their July 4 holiday.
The new measures would involve additional inspections of passengers' shoes and property.
Washington claimed legal authority to enforce new security requirements on foreign governments or airports because the flights go directly to America
Earlier, police officials said Americans and Europeans were discussing measures that could include installation of additional bomb-detection machines.
Bomb makers from the Nusrah Front, al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, and Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, are believed to be working together to try to develop explosives that could avoid detection by current airport screening systems, American national security sources said.
The main concern is that Mujahideen could blow up America- or Europe-bound planes by concealing bombs on foreign fighters carrying Western passports who spent time with Mujahideen in the region.
AQAP has a track record of plotting such attacks. It was behind a 2009 attempt by a Mujahid with a bomb hidden in his underwear to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner.
Terrified American officials believe Nusrah and AQAP operatives have carried out operational testing of new bomb designs in Syria, where Nusrah is one of the main Islamic groups fighting to overthrow tyrant al-Assad.
The stealth explosives the bomb makers design include non-metallic bombs.
But Americans are especially terrified by the fact that the recent battlefield successes of the Islamic State (formerly Islamic State in Iraq and Levant, or ISIL) have drawn a growing number of Muslim fighters from America and Europe to Holy Jihad and they would have easy access to flights headed for American cities.
Source: Agencies
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