Terrorists putting bombs in parcels and mailing them to the US

Have you folks heard what al-Qaida is up to these days. They planted bombs in ink printer cartridges and are mailing them to the US. Here is just one of the articles about it. So definitely checking parcels is very big now and important as this is the way the terrorists are trying to get at us now.

[B]Plane was over Quebec when police say Al-Qaida bomb was timed to detonate[/B]

By: Sylvia Hui, The Associated Press

LONDON, England - New details emerged Wednesday about the interception of a mail bomb bound from Yemen for the United States, including information suggesting the bomb could have exploded in Canadian airspace.

Data from Houston-based Flightaware show that UPS Flight 232 from the East Midlands, England, to Philadelphia was about 257 kilometres northwest of Quebec City at 5:30 a.m., when British police say the bomb was set to blow up.

A spokesman for Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Canada monitors national security concerns and is vigilant in protecting against any threats.
"It is clear that Canada is not immune from international or home grown radicalization," Christopher McCluskey said in an email.
"Our law enforcement and security agencies work closely together with their international counterparts, and we are always looking for new ways to co-operate with other countries to strengthen our mutual safety and security."

The discovery of the mail bombs prompted Transport Canada to ban printer cartridges weighing more than 454 grams from carry-on bags, checked baggage and cargo holds of planes leaving Canada

Authorities also banned all air cargo originating in Yemen. There are no direct flights between Yemen and Canada, so air cargo from that country would therefore be diverted to other countries before planes would be allowed to continue on to Canadian airports.
British officials said the bomb _ had it not been removed during transit in Britain _ could have detonated over the U.S., but the Oct. 29 flight actually didn't enter U.S. airspace until about 6 a.m.

Flight 232 makes daily flights but not always along the same route. Had the plane taken its alternate route, straight across the Atlantic, it likely would have been over the U.S. when it blew up.

In a statement, Scotland Yard said officers "disrupted" the explosive device during their initial examination when they took the printer cartridge ? in which the bomb was hidden ? out of a printer.

Authorities on both sides of the Atlantic have said they only narrowly thwarted the plot, in which terrorists in Yemen hid two powerful bombs inside printers and shipped them aboard cargo planes to addresses in Chicago. The printer cartridges were filled with PETN, an industrial explosive that, when X-rayed, could resemble the cartridges' ink powder.
The exact aim of the attack remains unclear, but a senior U.S. official has said that evidence pointed to a plot to blow up cargo planes inside the U.S. ? either on runways or over American cities. In Washington, the White House said the British finding showed how serious the attack was.

But the new account raises questions about what exactly happened during the first confusing hours when authorities, alerted by intelligence, searched for the bombs.
On that day, British police initially said they found no explosives in the package that was shipped from Yemen by way of Cologne, Germany, and intercepted at central England's East Midlands Airport. They then lifted a security cordon around the cargo depot building where the package had been examined.

But hours later they put up the cordon again to look further for explosives when it emerged that a second mail bomb had been found in a cargo that had landed in Dubai.
But in Wednesday's statement, police said they "disrupted" the bomb at about 2:40 a.m. EDT on Oct. 29 ? before they announced that they had found no explosives.
In Washington, White House spokesman Nicholas Shapiro said: "We greatly appreciate the highly professional nature of the U.K. investigation and the spirit of partnership with which U.K. authorities have pursued this matter."

He praised the efforts of intelligence and law enforcement professionals in the U.K., the UAE, Saudi Arabia and the United States, and said they would continue to work together "to address and counter the threat posed by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula."
The Yemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the bombs and has vowed to send more explosives-packed parcels.

_ With files from The Canadian Press

Even more reason to kill em all and let Allah sort em out!

The shipping managers and material handlers shoulf be made aware that a great tragedy shall befall them and their familys if rhey are careless and ket a bomb aboard a passenger plane, and do it and admit it, and say it will go on untill no more of that stuff is shipped. We are stupid! We let our over seas enemys get away with anything they want, and do nothing but wring our hands.Nothing fights terror like more terror.