AL Qaeda bomb plotters hoped to stage a Lockerbie-style outrage over Britain.
Explosives found inside a modified printer ink cartridge on board a cargo plane at East Midlands Airport were primed to detonate in mid-air.
The device was active when counter-terror police swooped on the aircraft early on Friday.
Yemen-based terrorists had built the bomb to go off in British air space, just like the Lockerbie atrocity of 1988 which killed 270 people.
Guess all “wedding gift” packages will now be thoroughly searched. More skin crawling pat downs for all, longer wait lines at the airport, more broken items traveling through cargo carriers. Yes, indeed.
The alert was triggered by intelligence from a unit of GCHQ surveillance experts stationed in Afghanistan, the Sunday Express can reveal. Operating from a converted shipping container in Helmand, the team picked up the words “A wedding gift is being delivered”.
The phrase is an Al Qaeda code meaning a bomb is in transit.
With the help of Saudi agents, GCHQ alerted MI6, which raised the alarm in London and Washington.
Bright.
It was also revealed last night that a woman had been arrested in San’a on suspicion of sending explosive packages on cargo planes to the US.
A Yemeni security source said security forces traced the woman through a telephone number she left with a cargo company. Her lawyer, Abdel Rahman Burman, told reporters: “Her acquaintances tell me that she is a quiet student and there was no knowledge of her having involvement in any religious or political groups.”
Authorities also arrested UPS and FedEx workers and were interrogating them last night, along with employees at San’a Airport.
Long and boring, the heckling causes the Won to meltdown. He’s not quite understanding where the love has gone.
A reminder that you couldn’t say things like this three years ago unless you wanted to be labeled a racist. Seems like nobody cares about that abused and overused label much anymore.
The Colorado Supreme Court has reversed the conviction of a man who admitted using someone else’s Social Security number to obtain a loan, concluding that the defendant wasn’t really trying to assume a false identity.
The opinion was written by Michael Bender, who was joined by Mary Mullarkey, Gregory Hobbs and Alex Martinez. A strongly worded dissent by Nathan Coats was joined by Nancy Rice and Allison Eid.
The case involved Felix Montes-Rodriguez, who was convicted of criminal impersonation for using another person’s Social Security number on a loan application.
The state Supreme Court threw out Felix Montes-Rodriguez’s 2006 conviction in a 4-3 decision published Monday. Montes-Rodriguez used his own address, birth date and place of employment to apply for a loan, but used a woman’s Social Security number that he had been using for work. His immigration status isn’t known.
Gee, using a stolen social security number of a female…my guess is that he is here illegally.
A majority of justices ruled that with so much identifying information on his application, he didn’t assume a false identity.
But the other justices said the majority botched the call.
“I not only believe the majority misconstrues the criminal-impersonation statue and reaches the wrong result in this case; but by slicing, dicing, parsing, distinguishing and generally over-analyzing (over the course of some 30 paragraphs) one short and relatively self-explanatory phrase, the majority manages to exclude from the statutory proscription conduct lying at its very heart,” Justice Nathan Coats wrote for the minority, according the Denver Post.
Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey, who was among the majority in the decision, is retiring at the end of next month after facing an uphill battle to keep her job in a election next week. Justice Alex Martinez, who also ruled in favor of Montes-Rodriguez, faces a vote on Tuesday.
Anyone seeing bull red yet? If this isn’t criminal impersonation, what is?
A suspicious device discovered in an air cargo shipment in Dubai that was headed for the U.S. contained explosive materials, an official UAE security source said Friday.
It was the first confirmation that any of the suspicious packages reported Friday contained explosives.
The person, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said late Friday the “explosive device” was found in the last 24 hours in a courier company’s regional hub and originated in a shipment from Yemen.
Iran, where a woman convicted of adultery has been sentenced to death by stoning, is poised to become a board member of the new United Nations agency to promote equality for women.
The move has sparked outrage from the US and human rights groups. Some rights groups are also upset that Saudi Arabia, where women are not allowed to drive and are barred from many facilities used by men, is also trying to join the governing body of UN Women.
Uhm, what kind of signal is the UN sending out? Yeah, same as what I thought. Why do we support these assclowns?
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