British Prime Minister, meanwhile, spoke of a “heightened threat” coming from that country, following the discovery Friday in Dubai and Britain two parcel bombs from Sanaa.
Packages discovered in mid-September and allegedly sent by Al-Qaeda in the ArabianPeninsula (AQAP), containing and a computer hard drive, but no explosives, told AFP a U.S. official.
“At the time, we obviously have investigated and, knowing the interest of terrorist groups to aviation, we considered the possibility that AQAP was studying the freight logistics system,” said the official.
“We received information several weeks ago to establish a potential link between these packages and AQAP,” he added.
“In this case, they wanted to track using the tracking system to know exactly when they would get somewhere, how to set the timer for the bomb explodes at the right place, probably over Chicago,” ABC commented on Dick Clarke, a head of counterterrorism at the White House.
The Yemeni authorities have decided to share search all cargo leaving the country and create a special unit to protect airports.
They also arrested “new suspects” were released and others among the local employees of airlines FedEx and UPS, arrested Saturday, according to a source of security services.
Sunday night, the Yemeni authorities had arrested a student released yesterday, a victim of “theft” identity. The second package was sent by a man, a source of security services.
Sanaa late Tuesday the German decision to ban all flights from Yemen, theft of passengers or cargo, seeing it as a “collective punishment”, according to an official spokesman
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