(AP-ABC News) Mike Levine and Pierre Thomas - A particularly extreme "subset" of terrorist groups in Syria are working alongside operatives from al-Qaeda's offshoot in Yemen to produce "creative" new designs for bombs that could be smuggled onto commercial planes, ABC News has learned. U.S. officials say that associates of the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria - the Nusra Front - and radicals from other groups were teaming up with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which built such innovative devices as the "underwear bomb" that ultimately failed to detonate in a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. U.S. analysts believe the terrorists in Syria could be looking to down a U.S.- or European-bound plane, with help from one of the thousands of Americans and other foreign fighters carrying U.S. and European passports who have joined the Nusra Front and other groups in the region.
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