MI6 foiled printer cartridge liquid bomb plot

[Denny Yen 0]

Parcel found on UPS 767

 

Dubai police discovered parts of a computer printer with explosives loaded into its toner cartridge found in a package onboard a cargo plane coming from Yemen.

 

Terrorists had tried to conceal a bomb inside this printer, which was intercepted by Dubai police en route from the Yemen to Chicago. Printer's circuitry were tampered with, smaller circuit board belongs to a cellphone.

 

The Fed-Ex bomb: The booby-trapped printer was packed in a box together with a number of everyday items such as books and magazines.

 

The packages spurred searches and investigations of jets arriving at New York's JFK Airport, Newark International Airport in New Jersey and the airport in Philadelphia.

 

Newark: A bomb squad officer carries a package away from a UPS cargo plane as the plane and its contents are searched inr Newark, New Jersey.

 

Search: Officials head straight for cargo hold to find the suspected package that has been sent from Yemen.

 

 

Al Qaeda ink cartridge bomb found on jet was linked to mobile phone SIM card

By DAVID WILLIAMS and REBECCA CAMBER

Last updated at 12:09 PM on 30th October 2010

 

• Bomb discoverd on jet in UK following MI6 tip-off
  
• Similar Fed-Ex package seized in Dubai
  
• 'Bombs' were addressed to synagogues in Chicago
  
• British Jews on 'high alert' after advice from police
  
• Home Office grounds all flights from Yemen to UK
  
• Passenger jet escorted into JFK airport by U.S. fighters

 

The US-bound package discovered on a plane in Dubai contained explosives and an electrical circuit linked to a mobile phone SIM card, police said today.

The device was prepared in a 'professional manner' and bore the hallmarks of terror groups such as al Qaeda, Dubai Police said in a statement.

The explosive material PETN, or pentaerythritol trinitrate, was used, the statement said.

This is the same chemical found after the failed attempt to blow up a plane over Detroit last Christmas.

A major international terror alert was launched after security staff found printer cartridges with wires attached at cargo hubs at East Midlands Airport in the UK and Dubai yesterday.

 

The packages were addressed to synagogues in Chicago, and were on Chicago-bound cargo planes that had set off from Yemen in the Middle East.

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1324948/Packages-British-airport-Dubai-DID-contain-explosives-Obama-says-credible-terror-plot.html

Edited October 30, 2010 by Denny Yen

[BC Tam 2]

Top pic, isn't that a 757 ?

 

Looks like another round of security upping then

With hindsight, seem recent "kowtowing" comment by chairman of Liverpool FC was most unfortunate

[aaronhiew 0]

Terrorists again