"Underwear Informant" Fashion Consultant or CIA al Qaeda Turncoat?
In a scoop the New York Times fails to acknowledge, the L.A. Times reports that the reported underwear bomber was in fact a CIA informant from whom the U.S. government hoped to obtain the whereabouts of the stylishly dressed Ibrahim Hassan Asiri, whom the paper identifies as a "feared" al Qaeda bomb maker. The informant and the bomb have both been extracted from Yemen, but the effort netted only Yemeni national Fahd Mohammed Ahmed Quso, who seemingly met death while still rocking the grunge look.
Washington Post: CIA bomb plot unraveled from within
Russia Today: Would-be underwear bomber worked with CIA; helped foil plot
John Glaser: Supposed Would-Be Underwear Bomber Is CIA Informant