NEWS FLASH

AP: CIA Breaks Up Plot To Blow Up U.S.-Bound Airliner | The AP is reporting that the CIA has thwarted “an ambitious” plot in Yemen by al Qaeda to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner around the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death. The plot reportedly “involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009.” The AP says it “learned about the thwarted plot last week but agreed to White House and CIA requests not to publish it immediately because the sensitive intelligence operation was still under way.”