Al Qaeda in Yemen devoted to attacking U.S.

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Al Qaeda in Yemen devoted to attacking U.S.
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U.S. intelligence now believes Al Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is working on "several
types of bombs" that could get past airport x-ray
screening machines. AQAP bomb designs are aimed
at hiding explosives in clothing, camera lenses
and animals according sources. The AQAP terror
group has more than tripled in strength to over a
thousand members over the past two years and it
controls a great amount of territory in southern
Yemen. This makes the Yemeni branch of al Qaeda
very formidable.
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