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Deliveries Found On Planes Linked To Yemeni Terrorists

November 01 2010

Yemen

Administration officials say that packaged explosives intercepted last week by U.S. counterterrorism personnel may have been meant to down aircraft en route to the United States, USA Today reports.

The devices were made with highly explosive material PETN, said John Brennan, the White House's homeland security and counterterrorism adviser.

The construction of the devices has been linked to Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, also believed to have designed the failed explosive hidden in...

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