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Western intelligence agencies believe that al-Qaida doctors have been trained to implant bombs inside the bodies of suicide bombers, Britain's Sunday Times reported.

Steps were being taken to guard against a new threat of "body bombs" planted inside passengers aboard flights heading to the United States from overseas, a government official with knowledge of the threat said Tuesday.

Passengers said the captain of a JetBlue flight from New York to Las Vegas could be heard shouting about Al Qaeda and bombs, and the plan made an emergency landing in Texas.

In one of the most devastating attacks in CIA history, officers failed to search an Al Qaeda double agent before he entered a December meeting at their base in a remote part of Afghanistan, and he detonated a huge bomb.

Indonesian Police say the bombings of two hotels in Jakarta on Friday was the work of Jemaah Islamiyah, a terrorist group with al-Qaida ties. Analysts say it is likely that Noordin Top, a Malaysian fugitive who leads an affiliated group ...