A regional wing of Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for a failed Christmas Day attack on a US-bound passenger plane. US President Barack Obama promised to hunt down the plotters.
An Al-Qaeda affiliate in the Arabian peninsula claimed Monday it was behind the failed bombing and threatened new attacks on the West, US monitoring groups said.
It acknowledged in the Internet posting that a "technical fault" had caused the failure of the plot, SITE Intelligence said.
The statement, which was accompanied by a picture of suspected would-be bomber Abdulmutallab, boasted of the coup delivered by the "Nigerian brother" against Western airport security.
He "was able to breach all the modern and sophisticated technologies and checkpoints at the airports around the world," another US monitoring group, IntelCenter, said, quoting from the statement.
"His act has dealt a huge blow to the myth of American and global intelligence services and showed how fragile its structure is."
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An Al-Qaeda affiliate in the Arabian peninsula claimed Monday it was behind the failed bombing and threatened new attacks on the West, US monitoring groups said.
It acknowledged in the Internet posting that a "technical fault" had caused the failure of the plot, SITE Intelligence said.
The statement, which was accompanied by a picture of suspected would-be bomber Abdulmutallab, boasted of the coup delivered by the "Nigerian brother" against Western airport security.
He "was able to breach all the modern and sophisticated technologies and checkpoints at the airports around the world," another US monitoring group, IntelCenter, said, quoting from the statement.
"His act has dealt a huge blow to the myth of American and global intelligence services and showed how fragile its structure is."
http://www.france24.com/en/20091228-al-qaeda-detroit-plane-incident-bomber-obama-usa-attack