Underwear Bombs

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  'Underwear Bomber' Sues US Justice Department Over Rights

  A Nigerian man serving life sentences for trying to set off a bomb in his underwear on a plane on Christmas Day 2009 is suing the U.S. Justice Department for denying his free speech and religious rights

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  Paris Gunman Told Yemeni he Lived With 'Underwear Bomber'

  One of the men behind last week's deadly rampage in Paris claimed to have lived with the Nigerian behind the failed al-Qaida "underwear bomb" plot five years ago, a Yemeni reporter who met the Paris attacker said on Monday.

• Saudi suspect in underwear bomb plots trained others, US says

  The United States believes the Saudi man suspected of designing underwear bombs for Al Qaeda's Yemeni affiliate has trained a small number of people on his advanced bomb-making techniques, a senior US official said on yesterday.

• Afghan spy chief wounded by underpants bomber

  The suicide bomber who tried to assassinate Afghanistan's spy chief detonated a bomb hidden in his underwear, the intelligence agency said on Friday.

• US vows to target Al Qaeda terrorists wherever they hide

  Days after declaring that it had foiled an attempt by Al Qaeda terrorists in Arabian Peninsula to blow up an American passenger plane, the US has vowed to go after them "wherever they are and wherever they try to hide".

• Al Qaeda 'underwear bomber' was working with CIA, Saudi: Reports

  A bomber from the al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen sent to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner last month was actually a double agent who infiltrated the group and volunteered for the suicide mission, U.S. media reported on Tuesday.

• CIA foils new Al Qaeda underwear bomb plot: US

  The Associated Press has learned the CIA thwarted a plot by Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.

• 'Underwear bomber' pleads guilty during trial in Detroit

  A Nigerian man said on Wednesday he tried to blow up an international flight for Al Qaeda with a bomb in his underwear in retaliation for the killing of Muslims worldwide, taking a federal court in Detroit by surprise as he pleaded guilty on the second day of his trial.

• What is PETN; why is it deadly?

  Terrorists may have used hard-to-detect plastic-based explosive PETN in Wednesday's Delhi High Court blast - the same substance used in the underwear bomb plot on a 2009 Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and by the 'shoe bomber'.