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Title: Obama: Terror explosives found, bound for US
Post by: Allhallowsday on October 29, 2010, 05:03:23 PM
Obama: Terror explosives found, bound for US
WASHINGTON – Authorities on three continents thwarted multiple terrorist attacks aimed at the United States Friday, seizing two explosive packages addressed to Chicago-area synagogues and packed aboard cargo jets from Yemen. Parts of the plot might remain undetected, President Barack Obama's counterterror chief warned.

Obama called the coordinated attacks a "credible terrorist threat" amid worldwide fears that al-Qaida was launching a major new campaign of assaults.

"The United States is not assuming that the attacks were disrupted and is remaining vigilant," Obama adviser John Brennan said at the White House.

One of the packages was found aboard a cargo plane in Dubai, the other in England. In the U.S., cargo planes were searched up and down the Eastern Seaboard, and an Emirates Airlines passenger jet was escorted down the coast to New York by American fighter jets.

No explosives were found aboard those planes, though the investigation was continuing on at least two... 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101029/ap_on_bi_ge/airports_suspicious_packages (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101029/ap_on_bi_ge/airports_suspicious_packages)


Title: Re: Obama: Terror explosives found, bound for US
Post by: lester1/2jr on October 29, 2010, 05:46:42 PM
wonder how they found them. must have been a tip, I can't believe they would find them just looking for them. There must be so much cargo in those ports.


Title: Re: Obama: Terror explosives found, bound for US
Post by: indianasmith on October 30, 2010, 09:18:33 AM
Looking over the last 40 years are so, Unions have added inefficiency, bureaucracy, and corruption to everything they have touched.

"There is no right to strike against the public's safety, anytime, anywhere."  - Calvin Coolidge.

He may have been a crappy President, but he made a good point.


Title: Re: Obama: Terror explosives found, bound for US
Post by: venomx on October 30, 2010, 11:41:48 AM
(http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/3323/terroristswincointoss16.jpg) (http://img829.imageshack.us/i/terroristswincointoss16.jpg/)


Title: Re: Obama: Terror explosives found, bound for US
Post by: lester1/2jr on October 30, 2010, 11:44:02 AM
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Explosives headed for Chicago-area synagogues were intercepted thanks to intelligence gathered by Saudi Arabia



Title: Re: Obama: Terror explosives found, bound for US
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on October 30, 2010, 11:04:45 PM
Looking over the last 40 years are so, Unions have added inefficiency, bureaucracy, and corruption to everything they have touched.

Hah, if you live in NJ you'd be preaching to the choir on that one  :bouncegiggle: