East Midlands cargo bomb timed to explode over US
11.11.10
Scotland Yard has revealed that the device taken from a plane in Britain was timed to explode in mid-air over the eastern US, the Guardian reports. The bomb was found by police on board a cargo plane at East Midlands Airport last month after detailed information was passed through intelligence channels to the UK and US from Saudi Arabia.
The Guardian reports that an alarm clock on a mobile phone attached to the printer bomb was set to go off at 10:30. If the cargo plane's journey had gone to schedule, the device – in a package addressed to a synagogue in Chicago – would have gone off in midair over the eastern seaboard of the US. The device was capable of bringing down an aircraft.
The bomb is believed to have been sent by the Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). It was found aboard a UPS plane at East Midlands and was so sophisticated that it was initially cleared by military and police explosives experts.
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