Source/Credit: ABC News | World News
By Richard Esposito, Pierre Thomas & Rhonda Schwartz
Posted: October 29, 2010
Two Packages From Yemen To Chicago Were Stopped.
An intelligence report that al Qaeda in Yemen may have shipped an explosive device to Chicago led to an international search of cargo planes carrying packages to the United States from Yemen today.
As of noon, American law enforcement officials said no explosive devices had been found after cargo planes were searched at airports in Newark and Philadelphia.
The initial report came late Thursday night and involved two separate packages shipped from Sanaa, Yemen to Chicago, according to law enforcement officials. One of the packages was shipped by FedEx, the other by UPS.
Officials said both packages were stopped midway on their trip to Chicago, one at the East Midlands cargo air field outside London and the other at the airport in Dubai.
US officials told ABC News that one package contained cell phones and what might be "detonators and timers." Officials said the second package contained a printer whose toner cartridge appeared to have been tampered with and contained a white powder.
British officials said tests on the package proved to be negative for explosives, despite initial reports that the explosive chemical PETN had been detected.
A FedEx official confirmed that a suspicious package shipped from Yemen had been "confiscated" at the FedEx facility in Dubai. In cooperation with the FBI, local authorities have confiscated a suspicious package at the FedEx facility in Dubai.
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