Wednesday,  May 9, 2012 • Vol. 12--No.300 • 21 of 31 •  Other Editions

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went boom," he said.
• Though residents of the two cities lost personal belongings they can never replace, many are trying to keep things in perspective.
• Selmer Johnson and his wife, Janine McDaniel, live just a few blocks from where Bean was found dead on the banks of Memorial Creek in Madison. They were cleaning out water-logged belongings on Monday.
• "Considering that there was a life lost, this can be replaced, but you can't replace a life," McDaniel said.

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AP News in Brief
Plot fizzled as al-Qaida unwittingly handed its cunning new bomb to the CIA

• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Over the past three years, al-Qaida bomb makers in Yemen have developed three fiendishly clever devices in hopes of attacking airplanes in the skies above the United States.
• First, there was the underwear bomb that fizzled over Detroit on Christmas 2009. Next, terrorists hid bombs inside printer cartridges and got them on board cargo planes in 2010, only to watch authorities find and defuse them in the nick of time.
• Then last month, officials say, al-Qaida completed a sophisticated new, nonmetallic underwear bomb -- and unwittingly handed it over to the CIA.
• The would-be suicide bomber, the man al-Qaida entrusted with its latest device,

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