Explosives by air mail

One of the abandoned bomb in Yemen packages for the United States has been transferred, at Cologne / Bonn. Now the federal government can not load from the desert state to Germany. The desperately poor country is increasingly becoming a target for terrorism investigators.
The discovery of explosives in air cargo packages, has put the security agencies around the world on the alert. The Federal Transport Ministry rejected on Sunday to all airlines, air cargo transport for the time being not to be from Yemen more. The parcel carrier FedEx, UPS and DHL have been instructed to check here restante from Yemen.

Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière admitted on Sunday that shipments had been inspected so far relatively weak. Shipments that were sent abroad, and then go through security checks had been, not in Germany re-examine if these were goods in transit. Now the "control density," but are significantly increased. Similar arrangements also met British and U.S. authorities in response to the foiled attacks.
De Maizière pointed out that Germany was not the aim of the planned attacks and consequently, there were no increased threat. But will, however remain very vigilant.

On Friday, British security authorities of a suspicious package on the cargo airport near Nottingham had secured. It has included a laser printer, the toner cartridge provided with plastic explosives was. The package had been abandoned in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, and addressed to a synagogue in the Chicago area have been.

According to the Frankfurter Rundschau, the Saudi intelligence had set on Thursday evening, including the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) from the suspected terrorist in knowledge and identified the parcel number of the suspect shipment. The cargo had been unloaded at this time, however, already at the airport Cologne-Bonn in a UPS machine that would fly over Nottingham to Chicago. Then alerted the BKA, the British security authorities.

A second parcel bomb was discovered at the airport in Dubai. It had also been abandoned in Sanaa and was about Doha and Dubai to Chicago to be shipped. Partly it was apparently carried by passenger aircraft. In Sanaa two dozen more suspicious packages were discovered. The Yemeni security authorities arrested a woman.

The U.S. security authorities made an offshoot of the terrorist network Al Qaeda, the Organization of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Akah), responsible. As a bomb maker is the Saudi Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, the failure of the already explosive device for the suicide attack on 25 is said to have built December 2009 in Detroit.

The chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Internal Affairs, Wolfgang Bosbach (CDU), recent trials evaluated as evidence that "Germany is still in sight is from terrorists." The authorities now need to carefully review their security policy and adjust it, he told the Times. "Has the Yemen long as the Afghan-Pakistani border area to a retreat designed for terrorists," said Bosbach, "so we can not in the fight against terrorism continues." A few days before the Congress mid-term elections on Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama spoke in a TV speech by a "terrorist threat" that the authorities would take very seriously.

Both were capable of igniting explosive devices, experts say - by time fuse and mobile

Initial studies included both bombs were capable of igniting the substance and PETN, as experts said. In a packet is to be found to have a time fuse, the second explosive device could have been detonated by mobile phone.

All cargo from Yemen are now being sorted out at the Frankfurt airport and a "100-percent air security control" subject, said an airport employee on Sunday. This has ordered the federal police. "This is only for freight, passengers on the airport, you realize anything about it." Twice a week a cargo plane of Jemenia Air in Frankfurt, a Lufthansa connection to Yemen country not currently exist. A further tightening of security checks at Germany's largest passenger airport is not planned. The arrangements were "since 11 September unchanged at extremely high level, "said airport spokesman Jürgen Harrer Rundschau.

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