US has fingerprint, forensic evidence of top Al Qaeda bomb-maker |
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Washington, May 24ANI: The FBI has fingerprint and forensic evidence linking Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP bomb-maker Khalid Ibrahim al-Asiri to a trio of explosive devices used in recent attacks on the US, counter-terrorism officials have said. According to The Daily Express, investigators have pulled a fingerprint of al-Asiri off the bomb which was hidden in the underwear of a Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, accused of trying to blow up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. They also found that the explosives used in that bomb are chemically identical to those hidden inside two printers which were shipped towards Chicago and Philadelphia from Yemen last year. In March, the US State Department had designated al-Asiri a terrorist and banned Americans from doing business with him. The US said that he was also involved in planning to bomb Saudi oil facilities. He is also wanted by the Saudi Arabian government and is the subject of an Interpol Orange Notice. ANI Posted by aniin on Thursday May 26 reply Comments |
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