Dubai cargo plane bomb was on two passenger flights before discovery

Ok, one came first on a passenger plane. This could explain the lack of cargo planes coming from Yemen. But what about the other one? The one which apparently was NOT on a passenger plane first?

Also, what was intended, to blow up a plane? Why send the package on a multiple plane route? And if the bomb was already on several planes, why didn't they detonate it? Why address the bombs to Synagogues in Chicago? Who would be able to read an incinerated package blown up at 30,000 feet?

Also is it common that passenger planes carry cargo? Why then bother screening passenger luggage so carefully if the cargo isn't? It makes sense to offload luggage of passengers who don't show up, but what about all that cargo being sent unaccompanied?



From The Guardian.

Qatar Airways statement comes as Yemen arrests female university student on suspicion of sending two mail bombs

One of the two mail bombs found on US-bound cargo aeroplanes had travelled on two separate passenger flights before being found, a spokesman for Qatar Airways said today.

Entrapment likely issue in Chicago bomb plot AP Sept 22

Can't find a terrorist, make one....


From 9/11 Blogger.


CHICAGO – As prosecutors take up the challenge of trying to convict a man arrested in an alleged bomb plot in Chicago, they may have to show the suspect wasn't egged on by an informant or undercover FBI agents into a crime he didn't initially intend to commit.

Sami Samir Hassoun, 22, was arrested Sunday after he placed a backpack authorities say he thought contained a bomb near Chicago's Wrigley Field. The fake but ominous-looking device — a paint can fitted with blasting caps and a timer — was given to him by an FBI undercover agent.

Hassoun's attorney, Myron Auerbach, said Tuesday he needed to study the case further before deciding on a defense strategy. But he left open the possibility of citing entrapment.

"My client didn't bring anything of his own making to the incident. Things were given to him," he said...