Why send it by boat when planes are so much faster.
Passengers disembark an Emirates airliner into an awaiting bus at JFK International Airport in New York. Photo / WABC-TV, AP
Homeland Security, the CIA and FBI has been chasing this one down for awhile.I do not believe there is any connection between the DC shooter and this discovery. As a matter of fact I really do believe the DC shooter is connected with the elections. Some crackpot trying to terrorize the electorate. As a matter of fact, I wonder if there is a polling place with the word 'marine' in its name.
...President Barack Obama says authorities (click title to entry - thank you) have uncovered a "credible terrorist threat" against the United States after the discovery of explosives in US-bound packages on cargo jets.
Obama said both had been addressed to Jewish organisations in the Chicago area.
The disclosures triggered a worldwide alert amid fears that al-Qaeda was attempting to carry out fresh terror attacks....
...The second package was aboard a plane searched in England, and officials said it contained a printer toner cartridge with wires and powder.
That second package was aboard a plane in the East Midlands, north of London....
...Several other cargo planes at airports along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States also were searched, and officials said no explosives were found. An Emirates Airlines passenger jet carrying cargo from Yemen was escorted from the Canadian border to New York City by two military fighter jets, US officials said. They said it was a precautionary action.
An FBI spokesman in Chicago, Ross Rice, said both suspicious packages had been sent from the same address in Yemen....
No doubt a plan sponsored by our favorite Ex-patriot and what exactly is the ACLU complaining about? And to think it is just in time for Halloween. BOO !
Yemen bomb scare 'mastermind' lived in London (click here)
Anwar al-Awlaki, who US officials suspect was behind the cargo plane bomb, has been linked to other terrorism plots
Vikram Dodd, crime correspondent
...Anwar al-Awlaki was born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, and has been accused of encouraging terrorism in his sermons and writings...
Since September 11, 2001 the belief that cargo and baggage needs to be scanned before loading it on planes and cargo ships as a matter of 'process' to stop such threats has been a complaint by many. So. Here we are now, nine years later and the concern has become a reality. How about that? Why do I want to say "I told you so."
