Sunday, October 31, 2010

Mail bomb in Dubai flew on passenger planes

An United Parcel Service (UPS) cargo plane lands at Cologne/Bonn airport near Cologne October 31, 2010. A bomb found on a US-bound cargo plane in Britain was trans-shipped at Cologne Bonn airport in Germany on its outward journey from Yemen, British police said on Saturday. UPS' European air hub is at Cologne Bonn airport.[Photo/Agencies]
SAN'A, Yemen - One of two powerful bombs mailed from Yemen to Chicago-area synagogues traveled on two passenger planes within the Middle East, a Qatar Airways spokesman said Sunday. The U.S. said the plot bears the hallmarks of al-Qaida's offshoot in Yemen and vowed to destroy the group.
The airline spokesman said a package containing explosives hidden in a printer cartridge arrived in Qatar Airways' hub in Doha, Qatar on one of the carrier's flights from the Yemeni capital San'a. It was then shipped on a separate Qatar Airways plane to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, where it was discovered by authorities late Thursday or early Friday. A second, similar package turned up in England on Friday.
The airline spokesman disclosed the information on condition of anonymity in line with the company's standing policies on conversations with the media. He did not give any timeframe for the two flights in question — the airline operates daily passenger flights from Yemen that could also carry courier packages.

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