Yemeni officials have arrested a woman in Sanaa who they suspect is connected to a plot to send explosive packages to the U.S. According to the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano told CNN that the plan was to send explosives on a flight to the United States has the "hallmarks of al Qaeda." Officials have also been working to find those who are responsible for sending two suspicious packages addressed to Jewish Synagogues in the U.S. found in the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. British officials suspect that the packages were meant to go off inside an aircraft but there were unsure of the time or location that the explosion would have went off. They were certain however that the blast would have been enough to take down the whole plane. Yemen has become a battleground between Yemeni forces and AL Qaeda members since 2009 when a local affiliation sprang up in the Arabian Peninsula. The U.S. Postal Service announced it has temporarily suspended acceptance of inbound international mail originating in Yemen. President Obama stated in a press briefing that counter-terrorism officials are taking the situation very seriously and the Department of homeland security has also taken measure to insure our country’s safety. The president also extended a thank you to King Abdullah for Saudi Arabia’s role in unraveling the terrorist plot. Without the intelligence information found in Dubai things could have turned out very badly for the U.S.
First off I must say that I’m glad we are working together across the world to combat against terrorism. I can only imagine what could have happened if the packages had not been detected. I hope that other countries see this as a sign to step up and be more involved in the fight. I also hope that the terrorist are also seeing that it’s not going to be easy for them to cause such mayhem and destruction as they have in the past. Terrorism around the world is on the rise but so is the fight against it. I think that the world is finally beginning to accept the fact to terrorism is in fact a global problem and no one nation is going to be able to put an end to it alone.
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