Germany, France, Great Britain, and the United States have all stopped inbound packages from Yemen in light of packages containing explosives discovered en route to synagogues in Chicago on Friday. German officials are inspecting all parcels from Yemen that arrive despite the blockage and others currently held in storage. On Sunday, Yemeni authorities released a university student suspected of involvement in the mailing of the packages. German Interior Minister De Maiziere canceled his trip to Tel Aviv, Israel to discuss business prospects because he is needed in Germany until the end of the bomb threat. Officials in Berlin were tipped off between late Thursday and early Friday by a friendly intelligence agency, suspected to be Saudi Arabia, and they then tipped off Great Britain with the parcel's numbers. Though the plane took off too soon in Germany to intercept the parcel, British officials were able to identify them with the specific information given to them by the Germans. Though Germany was not the intended target, German officials are taking national and international security very seriously and even launching an investigation of gaps within air security.
Rebecca M. Samson
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment