Bomb Was Set to Explode Over U.S.

By ALISTAIR MACDONALD A device found in the U.K. on a United Parcel Service Inc. plane last month was primed to go off over the Eastern seaboard of the U.S., British police said. A forensic examination showed the device was set to explode at 10:30 a.m. British Summer Time, or 5:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, on Oct. 29, when the aircraft carrying it would have been somewhere over the Eastern U.S., police said. After a tip from Saudi intelligence, British police intercepted the device—which originated in a shipment from Yemen—at East Midlands Airport at 3:28 a.m. Oct. 29 on a cargo plane bound for Chicago via Philadelphia….

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Bomb Was Set to Explode Over U.S.

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