Posted on Friday, 29th October 2010 by Patrick Dorwin

It’s still early, but it seems like a terrorist plot has been foiled, as packages from Yemen have been found containing printer cartridges with wires & syringes along with a white powder. No actual bombs or explosives have been found yet, but it sure has the feeling of a dry run to me.

I’ll be out all day, so feel free to treat this as an open line on this subject and post updates as news beaks.

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  1. MjM Says:
    October 30th, 2010 at 12:02 pm

    Underwear-type explosives found.

    Could be a test, but when first (wrong) reports said there were no actual bomb material, I thought “diversion… look elsewhere”.

    Now I think it more a plot to comment on today’s Stewart/Colbert “Keep Far Alive” rally.



  2. MjM Says:
    October 30th, 2010 at 12:03 pm

    …that’s “Keep Fear Alive”



  3. Patrick Dorwin Says:
    October 30th, 2010 at 4:37 pm

    Yemeni arrested, al-Qaida bomber eyed in mail plot
    SAN’A, Yemen – Yemeni police arrested a woman on suspicion of mailing a pair of bombs powerful enough to take down airplanes, officials said Saturday as details emerged about a terrorist plot aimed at the U.S. that exploited security gaps in the worldwide shipping system.

    Investigators were hunting Yemen for more suspects tied to al-Qaida and several U.S. officials identified the terrorist group’s top explosives expert in Yemen as the most likely bombmaker.

    The explosives, addressed to Chicago-area synagogues, were pulled off airplanes in England and the United Arab Emirates early Friday morning, touching off a tense search for other devices.

    It still wasn’t clear whether the bombs, which officials said were wired to cell phones, timers and power supplies, could have been detonated remotely while the planes were in the air, or when the packages were halfway around the world in the U.S. But the fact that they made it onto airplanes showed that nearly a decade since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, terrorists continue to probe and find security vulnerabilities.



  4. HeatherRadish Says:
    October 31st, 2010 at 10:36 pm

    Hrm…there’s (also?) a suspect linked to the Christmas Day underpants bomber.

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