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| U.S. Reports: Saudi Bomb Maker Believed to Be Main Suspect in Mail Terror Plots |
| 2010-11-01 |
| [Yemen Post] A Saudi bombmaker is believed to be involved in the mail bombs that were shipped through Yemen and were intercepted while on their way to the U.S. in London and Dubai, U.S. media citing an official speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... reported on Sunday. Ibrahim Hassan al Asiri, on top of a Saudi most-wanted terrorist list and a brother of a boomer who tried to eliminate senior Saudi counterterrorism official Prince Muhammad Bin Nayef last year, is thought to be one of the main suspects in the explosive parcels aimed at two places of Jewish worship in Chicago, reports said. Asiri, also believed to be involved in 2009 Christmas Day plot, is working with Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP, they said, pointing out that the U.S. authorities have closely been watching him after information about his experience in making explosives. There were signs the Saudi national produced the Christmas Day plot bomb and the bombs used to kill prince Muhammad Bin Nayef, they added. After the parcels that triggered high alert in the United States and the UK were seized on Friday morning, the U.S. said the mail plots bore the hallmarks of AQAO, which the U.S. has recently said is more dangerous than the main Al-Qaeda group of Bin Laden. |
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