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From MSNBC:
PHILADELPHIA — A suspicious package was discovered aboard a UPS cargo flight from Yemen, CNN reported, triggering searches of other cargo flights, including several at Philadelphia and Newark airports.
The report followed word Friday from the Transportation Security Administration that cargo flights that landed safely at Newark and Philadelphia airports were being searched after "reports of potentially suspicious items onboard."
A suspicious package was discovered aboard a UPS cargo flight from Yemen, CNN reported, triggering searches of other cargo flights, including several at Philadelphia and Newark airports. Full story
"Out of an abundance of caution the planes were moved to a remote location where they are being met by law enforcement officials and swept," TSA added.
The flight that landed at Newark, N.J., reportedly came from Yemen.
At Philadelphia, video from the airport showed emergency vehicles around a UPS jet that had arrived from Paris.
"A possible explosive device" was being sought, airport spokeswoman Victoria Lupica was quoted by the Philadelphia Inquirer as saying. But Fire Department spokesman Carl Grimes mentioned "a possible radiological incident."
UPS stated that "we are cooperating fully with authorities in Philadelphia. The aircraft has been isolated; the shipment in question is being removed. The aircraft involved is a two-crew member plane. The crew has been safely evacuated."
A second UPS cargo flight that was to depart from Philadelphia was also being searched, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
In New York, a police spokesman said a UPS delivery truck was also being investigated in the city's borough of Queens, but no further details were immediately available.
If this wasn't so scary, I'd suggest FedEx was trying to eliminate the competition..
UPDATE: On CNN's website, it's being reported that the UPS vehicles being searched had packages from a common address in Yemen. Also, the searches were sparked because a suspicious package with "manipulated" toner cartridges with wires and strange powder attached was discovered on a plane in the UK. More as I find out...
UPDATE: The truck is incorrect - there was no truck searched. More as I find out...
UPDATE: Posted on the Washington Examiner web site (and also reported on MSNBC):
MEMPHIS, TENN. — Officials for FedEx say the company has confiscated a suspicious package in Dubai that was shipped from Yemen and is cooperating with the FBI.
Memphis-based FedEx Corp. has embargoed all shipments from Dubai indefinitely. Company spokeswoman Sandra Munoz said Friday she could not estimate how many packages might be involved or discuss what was suspicious about the package.
She said the package originated in Yemen but referred all further questions to the FBI.
Otherwise, Munoz said, FedEx operations were running normally.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/breaking/fedex-confiscates-suspicious-yemen-package-in-dubai-stops-shipments-from-dubai-indefinitely-106313763.html#ixzz13lwAw0IO
