Allegracrown member
Joined: 27 Mar 2010 Posts: 91 Location: Canada
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 1:58 pm Post subject: Al-Qaeda 'made dry bombing run' |
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Just keep saying.
Islam is a religion of peace, it is only the extremist.
Islam is a religion of peace, it is only the extremist.
Islam is a religion of peace, it is only the extremist.
So why is the problem world wide?
And why are the peaceful Muslims doing nothing to help stop what is apparently an internal problem?
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3208268/Al-Qaeda-made-dry-bombing-run.html
TERRORISTS carried out a dry run for last week's airliner package bomb plot, officials believe.
Authorities in the US intercepted parcels from Yemen in September - a month before two packages were pulled off cargo planes at East Midlands Airport and in Dubai on Friday.
Last week's packages contained bombs disguised as ink cartridges and addressed to Jewish institutions in Chicago.
Both were en route to the US, which has now revealed its agents first found suspicious packages from Yemen in September and linked them "several weeks ago" to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
A source said that as they contained no explosives it prompted officials to speculate that al-Qaeda was testing the use of cargo systems to deliver its weapons.
The source added: "When we learned of last week's serious threat, people recalled the incident and factored it into our government's very prompt response."
The packages involved in the suspected dry runs contained household goods including books, religious literature, and a computer disk.
They were shipped by "someone with ties to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula", said the official.
Using UPS and FedEx, the terrorists would have been able to track their packages on the firms' websites which could have helped in planning what time the devices should be set to detonate.
Western governments have reacted by imposing strict new restrictions on freight from Yemen and Somalia.
Yemen has tried to reassure them by announcing its own far-reaching security measures in a bid to beat the plotters.
Saudi bombmaker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, 28, has emerged as a key suspect in the bomb plot.
He was already wanted over the "underwear" bomb allegedly worn by Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in an attempt to blow up a US airliner last Christmas.
And fugitive Anwar al-Awlaki, 39, is suspected to be the mastermind behind the latest campaign.
One of the packages found last week had been found on a cargo plane, but had earlier travelled on a Qatar Airways passenger aircraft from Yemeni capital Sanaa to Dubai, heightening concerns in the West.
Britain suspended all unaccompanied air cargo from war-torn Somalia yesterday having already banned freight from Yemen.
And Home Secretary Theresa May has banned all passengers carrying toner cartridges larger than 500g in their hand luggage.
Prime Minister David Cameron has told Parliament: "The fact that the device was being carried from Yemen to the UAE to Germany to Britain en route to America shows the interest of the whole world in coming together to deal with this."
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