On November 4th two Yemen bombs were intercepted from transit, one was intercepted in England and the other in Dubai. The bombs were on route to USA they were being sent via air freight. The bomb was detected and defused 17 minutes before it would detonate. Upon finding the bomb investigators focused on the Yemen based Al-Queda in the Arabian Peninsula. The bomb was found do to a tip from the Saudi authorities and were pulled off the US bound cargo ship. The explosives were extremely difficult to identify they are called PETN, they are held inside a printer cartridge, inside of a much bigger box. The bombs contained anywhere from 300-400g of PETN this much of PETN is big enough to cause a large explosion. The bombs were wired via phones and the phones were used as timers and were set to go off at certain times. The bombs that were intercepted were allegedly linked to the man who attempted last years December 25th failed attack on a US airliner.
I believe that the fact that the bombs were intercepted and defused so no civilian casualties happened was amazing. On the other hand i feel that it is unacceptable for the senders of these bombs to get away with it. I believe that bombs like these should never ever even enter an airport or enter a plane in the first place, extra security precautions should be taken, there should be and is a zero tolerance for any kinds of weapons, searches should be mandatory and
x-rays should be viewed more carefully. I also think that with this bomb threat there should be searches for the man or the men that planted the bomb in the first place. There should be a major investigation involving many more men and much more technology should be used to track this man or men. I believe that if we have the technology to find a bomb on a plane, and defuse it before it explodes there is a chance that we could and should find there people.
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