Incident Date:
October 29, 2010
Incident Successful: No
Location: Unknown Yemen
Perpetrators: Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Unknown Explosive Type)
Organization Type: Religious,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Airports & Aircraft(Airport)
Canadian Target:
Canadian Victim: No
Canadian Perpetrator: No
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "10/29/2010: Two package bombs with out-of-date addresses of Chicago synagogues were found in cargo planes in Dubai and the United Kingdom. The pentaerythritol trinitrate (PETN) filled bombs originated in Yemen and the packages had wires and a circuit board. They were designed to defeat detection systems at airports. On 10/15/2010 the Saudi government announced that Jabir Jubran Fayfi (a Guatanamo Bay detainee released to the Saudi terrorist rehabilitation program, who had re-joined Al Qaida in Yemen in 2006) had surrendered in Yemen and had tipped off the Saudis about the bomb plot. Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was suspected. On 11/10/2010, the London Metropolitan Police announced that ""forensic examination has indicated that if the device had activated it would have been at 10:30 hours BST on Friday, 29 October 2010,"" which would have put the plane over an unpopulated area of Canada."
References: 1) "Mickolus, Edward F. (2013). Terrorism, 2008-2012: A Worldwide Chronology. North Carolina: McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers. p. 156-157"
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