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Yemen cargo bomb plot cost only $4200: Al-Qaida
In a detailed account of its failed parcel bomb plot last month, Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen said late on Saturday that the operation cost only $4,200 to mount, was intended to disrupt global air cargo systems and reflected a new strategy of low-cost attacks designed to inflict broad economic damage. The group, Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, rel...
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UK police: Yemen bomb disarmed accidentally
British police have released new details about their discovery of a mail bomb bound from Yemen for the United States, suggesting they might have disarmed the bomb accidentally rather than by design.Police also said Wednesday that forensic evidence showed the device was timed to be detonated six to seven hours after the UPS cargo aircraft carrying i...
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UAE airlines stop carrying cargo from Yemen after bomb scare
Emirates and Etihad, the two main airlines in the United Arab Emirates, said today they have stopped carrying cargo from Yemen after the discovery in Dubai of a US-bound bomb posted from the Arab country."Emirates has placed a cargo embargo on all shipments from Yemen in cooperation with global authorities," a spokeswoman for the Dubai-based airlin...
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Al-Qaida turncoat alerted Saudis to cargo bomb plot, says Yemen
A leading Al-Qaida militant in Yemen who surrendered to Saudi Arabia last month provided the tip that led to the thwarting of the mail bomb plot, Yemeni security officials said on Monday.The officials said Jabir al-Fayfi, a Saudi militant who had joined Al-Qaida in Yemen, told Saudi officials about the plan. The officials spoke on condition of anon...
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Bombs were designed to destroy planes, believes US
John O. Brennan, the president's chief counterterrorism adviser, said Sunday that American authorities believe now that the two bombs found inside cargo packages were designed to blow up the airplanes carrying them, even though they were addressed to locations "associated with synagogues" in Chicago."We're looking at the potential that they would h...
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Yemen cargo bomb plot cost only $4200: Al-Qaida
In a detailed account of its failed parcel bomb plot last month, Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen said late on Saturday that the operation cost only $4,200 to mount, was intended to disrupt global air cargo systems and reflected a new strategy of low-cost attacks designed to inflict broad economic damage. The group, Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, rel...
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UK police: Yemen bomb disarmed accidentally
British police have released new details about their discovery of a mail bomb bound from Yemen for the United States, suggesting they might have disarmed the bomb accidentally rather than by design.Police also said Wednesday that forensic evidence showed the device was timed to be detonated six to seven hours after the UPS cargo aircraft carrying i...
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UAE airlines stop carrying cargo from Yemen after bomb scare
Emirates and Etihad, the two main airlines in the United Arab Emirates, said today they have stopped carrying cargo from Yemen after the discovery in Dubai of a US-bound bomb posted from the Arab country."Emirates has placed a cargo embargo on all shipments from Yemen in cooperation with global authorities," a spokeswoman for the Dubai-based airlin...
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Al-Qaida turncoat alerted Saudis to cargo bomb plot, says Yemen
A leading Al-Qaida militant in Yemen who surrendered to Saudi Arabia last month provided the tip that led to the thwarting of the mail bomb plot, Yemeni security officials said on Monday.The officials said Jabir al-Fayfi, a Saudi militant who had joined Al-Qaida in Yemen, told Saudi officials about the plan. The officials spoke on condition of anon...
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Bombs were designed to destroy planes, believes US
John O. Brennan, the president's chief counterterrorism adviser, said Sunday that American authorities believe now that the two bombs found inside cargo packages were designed to blow up the airplanes carrying them, even though they were addressed to locations "associated with synagogues" in Chicago."We're looking at the potential that they would h...
