Mr. Basit, a Filipino citizen and bomb-making expert, has links to the Indonesian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah as well as Abu Sayyaf, according to the State Department.
Mr. Cheney also said in the television interview that after Osama bin Laden had requested "terror training from Iraq, the Iraqi intelligence service responded; it deployed a bomb-making expert, a brigadier general".
Sources close to the US Department of Defense claimed on Thursday that David Drugeon, a French jihadist and bomb-making expert, was likely killed in a US attack in Syria.
At a briefing on Tuesday for reporters at the Pentagon, General Vines, who spoke by telephone from Iraq, said that the insurgents' tactics "have become more sophisticated in some cases," and that they were probably drawing on bomb-making experts from outside Iraq and from the old Iraqi Army.
Senior bomb maker Fathur Rahman al-Ghozi was killed by police in the Philippines in 2003, and bomb-making expert Azahari bin Husin was shot dead by police in Java in 2005.
I'm not especially expert in bomb making, but I do know that in the realm of homemade car bombs, propane and fireworks are not very sophisticated materials.
The two men ultimately convicted of bomb making were picked up on suspicions that they were bomb makers and fingerprinted.
Large amounts of bomb making equipment was found in the bath at the address.
Had he ever asked his daughter why she was involved in the bomb making?
And I never heard a lecture about bomb making or marksmanship.
On extremist forums, it is not unusual with video clips showing executions, bomb making instructions, etc.
