And the Lockerbie bomber is now where?

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.

via Seconds from Lockerbie II.  By the way, did I forget to mention that there are still other suspect packages that have not been located yet?

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