US suspected Yemen-based terrorists would use cargo holds two months ago - Telegraph

US suspected Yemen-based terrorists would use cargo holds two months ago - Telegraph: "Last week's bombs, found in Dubai and at East Midlands Airport, were addressed to synagogues also in Chicago.

Cargo plane terror alert: bombs 'designed to harm US synagogues'The sender is understood to have been someone in the Yemen with known links to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, according to reports. The packages contained books, religious literature and a computer disc, but no explosives.
'At the time, people obviously took notice and, knowing of the terrorist group's interest in aviation, considered the possibility that AQAP might be exploring the logistics of the cargo system,' an official told The New York Times.
'When we learned of last week's serious threat, people recalled the incident and factored it in to our government's very prompt response.'
The fact that the packages were allowed to go on their way, to apparently random addresses, after no explosives were found will raise questions about how last week's bombs were allowed to travel as far as they did, given they were addressed to Chicago synagogues."