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US Steps Up Explosive Package Probe

   VOA News 30 October 2010
   A  handout  picture released by the Emirates News Agency (WAM) shows a
   printer  found  in  a  US-bound parcel displayed by police in the Gulf
   emirate of Dubai, 30 October 2010

Photo: AFP

   A  handout  picture released by the Emirates News Agency (WAM) shows a
   printer  found  in  a  US-bound parcel displayed by police in the Gulf
   emirate of Dubai, 30 October 2010

   The  United  States,  Yemen  and  Britain  are searching for suspected
   terrorists who tried to send two  packages containing explosives from
   Yemen to Jewish places of worship in the U.S. city Chicago.
   U.S.  President Barack Obama on Friday called the intercepted packages
   a "credible terrorist threat." Â
   The  president  said  the packages originated in Yemen, but he stopped
   short of implicating the al-Qaida branch in Yemen, which has long said
   it wants to attack the United States. Â
   Officials  say  preliminary tests suggest at least one of the packages
   contained  the explosive used in a failed al-Qaida-linked plot to bomb
   a U.S. plane last year.
   Yemeni  President Ali Abdullah Saleh has pledged full cooperation with
   the investigation into the packages.
   The  packages  were  found  in  planes  in  Britain  and Dubai Friday,
   prompting  intensified  security  and  searches  of  cargo  planes  at
   airports in the eastern United States.
   U.S.  officials  say  the packages were discovered after Saudi Arabian
   intelligence passed the U.S. information related to the plot.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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