Saturday, November 6, 2010

More Details Emerge On Last Week's Parcel Bomb Plot On Cargo Planes



Around The World, A Race Against Time Bombs In Air -- ABC News/AP

5 countries, 2 days, several near misses: How authorities thwarted al-Qaida mail bombs.

The woman stepped off Hadda Street into a pair of courier offices in Yemen's capital. In FedEx and UPS storefronts tucked along shopping centers and travel agencies in San'a, she mailed two Hewlett-Packard printers to the United States.

She used a fake name, address and phone number. She paid in cash. Then she disappeared.

Hidden inside each printer was a bomb powerful enough to down an airplane.

Read more ....

More News On Last Week's Parcel Bomb Plot

AQAP claims responsibility for cargo planes plot -- Long War Journal
Yemeni al Qaeda Claims Package Bomb Attempts -- Wall Street Journal
Saudis Warned U.S. of Terror Plot Weeks Ago -- Wall Street Journal
U.S. got Saudi intel weeks ago about possible terror plot, source says -- CNN
Saudis Warned U.S. of Attack Before Parcel Bomb Plot -- New York Times
Saudis warned US of aviation bomb plot weeks ago -- AP

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