Truemors
Yemeni security forces outside the offices of FedEx Saturday in Sanaa.
Thursday, two suspicious packages destined for the United States were discovered aboard two cargo planes landing in Britain and Dubai.
Soon the suspicion focused on Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Back on two days of a global inquiry.
The warning given to Obama
It's 22:30 Thursday night that U.S. President is warned about the terrorist threat and that the case of parcel bombs starts.
Hours earlier, two suspicious packages were discovered aboard two freighters in port, one in Britain and one in Dubai.
Of PETN, a powerful explosive, was discovered in ink printers. Both devices have the same destination: the United States.
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The departure from London
"We believe that the vessel would explode in the air. There is no evidence that this was to take place over the British territory, but of course we can not exclude it." Saturday night, the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, left no room for doubt.
Yes, the package intercepted at the airport in the East Midlands was indeed explode. The day before, however, Scotland Yard seemed much less certain. After inspecting the first time the ink cartridge, the police had ensured that no trace of explosives had been detected.
According to The Observer, the scientific team would have missed the explosive because of the sophistication of the device. Even the sniffer dogs could not detect anything. Strange ... Saturday morning, after a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee, the tone changes. The Interior Minister, Theresa May, confirmed that the suspicious package was an explosive device.
As regards its manufacture, the police said that tests were continuing to determine the nature of the device. Barack Obama, who called David Cameron praised the "professionalism of the U.S. and UK in their joint effort to kill the plot in the bud".