Sources: Saudi Counterterrorism Work Broke Up New AQAP Plane Plot -- CNN
(CNN) -- The agent who penetrated al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and returned from Yemen with the group's new "airline bomb" was always under Saudi control and was not a double-agent, two sources briefed by Saudi counterterrorism officials have told CNN.
One source told CNN that the device was recovered around April 20, more than a week before the first anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, and was then handed over to the United States for forensic analysis.
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My Comment: If this is true, I can now understand why CIA Director Petraeus has been silent on this operation .... the CIA only had (probably) a peripheral and supportive role.