Yemen Sends Bombs to USA

Saudi & U.A.E. Help stop bombs coming to U.S. from Yemen

Reuters released the following about this topic....

The parcels were headed for "two places of Jewish worship in Chicago," Obama said. The Anti-Defamation League, a prominent Jewish organisation, earlier warned of a danger to U.S. Jewish institutions from packages mailed from Britain, Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

Suspicion fell on al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which had taken responsibility for a failed plot to blow up a U.S. passenger jet on Christmas Day in 2009.

The group, thought to include Yemenis and Saudis, is affiliated with al Qaeda, whose militants killed about 3,000 people using hijacked planes in the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001.

"Initial examinations of those packages has determined that they do apparently contain explosive material," Obama said in a televised briefing, calling it "a credible terrorist threat against our country."

The White House said "both of these packages originated from Yemen" and Obama was notified of the threat on Thursday night.

Speaking just days before the U.S. congressional elections on Tuesday, Obama said a top aide had spoken to Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and that Saleh had pledged full cooperation in the investigation.

One of the packages was found on a United Parcel Service cargo plane at East Midlands Airport, about 160 miles (260 km) north of London. The other was discovered at a FedEx Corp facility in Dubai.

UPS and FedEx, the world's largest cargo airline, said they were halting shipments from Yemen.

A TRIAL RUN?

One U.S. official and some analysts speculated that the parcels may have been a test of cargo screening procedures and the reaction of security officials.

"This may be a trial run," the U.S. official said.

The White House said Saudi Arabia helped determine that the threat came from Yemen, while Britain, the United Arab Emirates and "other friends and partners" also provided information.

"The United States is grateful to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for their assistance in developing information that helped underscore the imminence of the threat emerging from Yemen," said Obama's homeland security adviser, John Brennan.

In the United States, UPS planes were checked and then cleared in New Jersey and Philadelphia. The Transportation Security Administration said they were searched "out of an abundance of caution.

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Yusuf Estes, Washington D.C. told Islam Newsroom reporters - "Islam is not against Jews, Christians or any faith group. This is wrong in every aspect of the teachings of the Quran and prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. We need to wake up the Muslims and others to the fact, many people are doing things in the name of Islam that are just plane wrong.."