Bomb was designed to explode on cargo plane - UK PM

[Turborama]

Source: BBC

UK Prime Minister David Cameron says the device in a package sent from Yemen and found on a US-bound cargo plane was designed to go off on the aircraft.

But Mr Cameron said investigators could not yet be certain about when the device, intercepted at East Midlands Airport, was supposed to explode.

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In Yemen, police have arrested a woman suspected of posting the packages.

She was detained in the capital, Sanaa, as part of a search for a number of suspects believed to have been behind the plot, officials said. She was reportedly traced through a telephone number she had left with a cargo company.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11657486

[Riftaxe]

1. So he finally found out about the devices...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8098120/Cargo-plane-bomb-plot-David-Cameron-not-informed-of-terror-threat-for-16-hours.html">Cargo plane bomb plot: David Cameron not informed of terror threat for 16 hours

[awoke_in_2003]

2. this smells...

why blow up a cargo plane? It would have 3 people tops on it. Doesn't seem like this would have much impact.

[EC]

5. Maybe plane itself wasn't the target...

maybe it's flight plan was...blowing the plane while over something important?

[October]

7. I thought it was a package on the plane...

that would maybe be detonated once delivered???

[Bitwit1234]

3. Remember when the UPS plane exploded or caught fire

about a month ago...I am wondering if that was the dry run they are talking about. I am glad these people are as smart as they could be.

[James48]

4. UPS in Dubai?

here was that story.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703946504575469830201125788.html

[October]

6. They attributed that to lithium batteries, I believe.../nt

[applegrove]

8. Just terrifying.