article_snippet: A group called Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) later took responsibility for the plot.
article_snippet: Now A group called Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been claimed the discovery at East Midlands Airport was only possible because British officials in Saudi Arabia were in communication with a team believed to have been using torture on a member of terror group al-Qaeda. '
article_snippet: The people in London went back on the phone two or three times to where the interrogation was taking place in Riyadh to find out specifically where the bomb was hidden.
article_snippet: There were two Britons there, in immediate communication with where the interrogation was taking place, and as soon as it happened, The people in London were in touch with the UK.
article_snippet: It was all done in real time,' an intelligence source told Jamie Merrill, James Hanning, Mark Leftly and Nick Clark at 
article_snippet: A major security alert is claimed the discovery at East Midlands Airport was only possible because British officials in Saudi Arabia were in communication with a team believed to have been using torture on a member of al-Qaeda .
article_snippet: A source close to the operation said there was 'no way' that the information which led to the plot being exposed 'wasn’t procured under duress', but that British officials in Saudi Arabia would have ensured British officials in Saudi Arabia were not present.
article_snippet: He also said that a piece of counter-terrorism intelligence supplied by the Arab state had 'saved potentially hundreds of lives' in the UK, which aides have confirmed was a reference to the bomb plot.