> An al Qaida group based in Yemen claimed responsibility yesterday for the failed attempt to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 over Detroit as US president Barack Obama pledged to hunt down the sandal Replica plotters.
Meanwhile, photographs apparently showing the underpants filled with explosives worn by alleged bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab were broadcast today by ABC News.
The American government pictures show the singed underwear with a six-inch packet of a high explosive Replica Chloe Handbags called PETN sewn into the crotch, the US network reported.
ABC News said Abdulmutallab was carrying about 80g of PETN, more than one-and-a-half times the
embroidered patches amount carried by "shoe bomber" Richard Reid in 2001 and enough to blow a hole in the side of an aircraft.
Abdulmutallab, 23, a former engineering student at University College London, has reportedly told FBI agents he is one of many would-be terrorists in Yemen ready to carry out attacks in the near future.