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Cargo plane bomb plot

March 2011

  • The tail section of a UPS plane

    Fake bomb found on cargo plane

    Man arrested in London as investigation is launched into hoax device placed on UPS flight to Istanbul

December 2010

  • Times Square bomb

    Guardian Weekly 2010 in review
    Al-Qaida may have lost some gloss, but it has not been beaten

    Despite setbacks, its network can still recruit bombers and send them into the enemy heartland

24 November 2010

  • Risk of terror attack greater now – Met commissioner

    Sir Paul Stephenson cites attempted murder of Stephen Timms MP and cargo plane bomb plot as proof of continuing danger

10 November 2010

  • A forensic officer removes a package from a UPS container at East Midlands Airport

    Cargo plane bomb found in Britain was primed to blow up over US

    Device thought to have been sent by Yemen-based al-Qaida made safe three hours from explosion
  • A cartridge found in an explosive package on cargo plane in Dubai which sparked terror threat

    Yemen won't be another Afghanistan

    Christopher Preble

    Christopher Preble: The cargo plane plot has moved Yemen up the US's counter-terror agenda. But no one envisages 'boots on the ground'

  • A forensic officer removes a package from a UPS container

    Cargo plane bomb 'timed to detonate over US'

    Ink cartridge bomb found on cargo plane at East Midlands airport was set to detonate over eastern seaboard

4 November 2010

  • France's interior minister Brice Hortefeux

    French claim that Yemen cargo bomb was 'about to explode' dismissed

    Brice Hortefeux, France's interior minister, proposes '17 minutes to blast' theory – but investigators say they are unsure when device was set to detonate

  • A toner cartridge converted into a bomb

    Officials deny Yemen bomb defused 17 minutes before it was set to go off

    French interior minister claimed one of two computer printer devices found on cargo planes had been close to exploding
  • Deborah Orr

    It's been a bad week for 500g ink cartridges

    Deborah Orr

    The ink-cartridge bomb plot has highlighted a rather pathetic phenomenon: how inanimate objects can become victims of global terror

3 November 2010

  • East Midlands Airport Alert

    Terrorism: the threat shifts to Yemen – and Africa

  • A cartridge found in an explosive package on cargo plane in Dubai which sparked terror threat

    Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula member arrested over UK bomb plot

2 November 2010

  • East Midlands Airport in Castle Donington

    PM orders inquiry into delay in telling him of air cargo terror alert

    It took 10 hours to tell David Cameron there was a terrorist alert in Britain. An inquiry is intended to ensure there is not a repeat
  • Nicolas Sarkozy talks to David Cameron as they arrive at Lancaster House for today's summit

    UK-France treaties will help defeat terrorism, says David Cameron

    British PM and French president sign 50-year treaties to facilitate closer co-operation between the countries' armed forces and on their nuclear deterrents
  • UPS plane bomb plot

    Cargo plane bomb plotters used 'dry run', say US officials

    Intelligence officials intercepted three suspicious packages in September they suspect were sent to the US as a dry run

1 November 2010

  • Theresa May

    Cargo plane bomb plot: UK steps up security checks on airline passengers

  • Plane loaded at LAX

    Cargo plane bomb plot: Saudi double agent 'gave crucial alert'

  • Air cargo at Cologne-Bonn airport

    Cargo plane bomb plot: Scanners can detect PETN explosive – at a cost

  • Saudi al-Qaeda member Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri

    Cargo plane bomb plot tipoff came from ex-Guantánamo Bay detainee

  • The Saudi tip-off and the cargo bomb plot

    Richard Norton-Taylor

  • Cargo plane bomb plot: what is PETN?

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