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US officials have suggested a Saudi bombmaker is the key suspect in last week's attempt to send two parcel bombs from Yemen to the US on cargo planes.
They named the man as Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, who is said to be the main bombmaker for al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch.
It has emerged that one of the bombs was carried on two passenger planes before being seized in Dubai.
A Yemeni woman suspected of sending the bombs has been freed. She said she was the victim of identity theft.
Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri
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The prime minister is due to chair a meeting of the government's emergency planning committee Cobra, as calls grow for a full review of airport security.
Philip Hammond was responding to senior figures in the airline industry who had backed BA chairman Martin Broughton's attack on measures imposed by the US. Mr Broughton said many of the checks were "completely redundant". Mr Hammond said he would be allowing airlines to look at ways of "easing the passenger experience". Mr Broughton had criticised the US for imposing increased checks on US-bound flights but not on its own domestic services, saying the UK should stop "kowtowing" to US security demands. He said practices such as forcing passengers to take off their shoes should be abandoned, and questioned why laptop computers needed to be screened separately
Originally posted by gatorboi117
Why, oh why, is the man's country of origin an issue? its as if the government is desperately trying to get the public behind further conflicts and wars in the middle east .... because, OMG!! A TERRORIST MAN IN THE MIDDLE EAST!!! THEY ALL MUST BE TERRORISTS!!!!!!1!11!!!
Security and intelligence experts are deeply worried by a new development in suicide bombing, the BBC has learned. It has emerged that an al-Qaeda bomber who died last month while trying to blow up a Saudi prince in Jeddah had hidden the explosives inside his body. Only the attacker died, but it is feared that the new development could be copied by others. Experts say it could have implications for airport security, rendering traditional metal detectors "useless".
The explosives, they believe, were detonated by mobile phone.
The bomber was a Saudi al-Qaeda fugitive who said he wanted to give himself up to the prince in person.
rendering traditional metal detectors "useless".