Qatar Airways say parcel containing mail bomb found in Dubai traveled on 2 passenger planes

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Source: AP

The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with the company's standing policies on conversations with the media.

The package arrived in Qatar Airways' hub in Doha, Qatar on a flight from the Yemeni capital San'a. It was then shipped on a separate plane to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, where it was discovered by authorities.



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1. Parcel held in Dubai flown in from Sanaa via Doha

Source: AFP

30 October 2010, 8:58 PM
DUBAI The suspected Al Qaeda parcel intercepted in Dubai was flown in on a Qatar Airways flight from Sanaa via Doha, the state news agency WAM reported on Saturday.

‘The General Civil Aviation Authority announced Saturday that the package discovered at Dubai International Airport ... was shipped from Sanaa on board a Qatar Airways plane heading to Doha and then forwarded from that flight to Dubai,’ WAM said.

Two suspected Al Qaeda parcels from Yemen intercepted on Friday before reaching synagogues in Chicago contained powerful explosives and could have exploded, authorities in Dubai and London said.

US President Barack Obama said the two parcels, whose discovery after a tip-off from Saudi Arabia sparked an international security alert, were a ‘credible terrorist threat.’



Read more: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle09.asp?xfile=data/international/2010/October/international_October1414.xml§ion=international

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2. Al Jazeera: said the airline had not yet revealed whether the package was aboard a passenger flight

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Al Jazeera's Dan Nolan, reporting from Dubai, said the airline had not yet revealed whether the package was transported on board a passenger flight.

"Qatar Airways has a small percentage of its business where it uses cargo flights," he said.

"There's only one cargo flight per week from Sanaa to Doha so you would think the chances that it was on a passenger flight are quite high."

The airline also stated that "the explosives discovered were of a sophisticated nature whereby they could not be detected by X-ray screening or trained sniffer dogs," and were only discovered after an intelligence tip off.

It said that under international aviation regulations, it is not the responsibility of the country in which the cargo transits, in this case Qatar, to X-ray or inspect the cargo. This responsibility belongs to the country from where the consignment originates.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/10/2010103017926499781.html

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3. Qatar Airways: Transit Countries Are Not Responsible to Inspect Cargo

Qatar Airways: Transit Countries Are Not Responsible to Inspect CargoQatar

Sunday, 31 October 2010 17:23
Doha - Qatar Airways stated Sunday that it is not the responsibility of the country in which the cargo transits to x-ray or inspect, it is rather the responsibility of the country from where the consignment originates as per the Chicago Convection.

The airways issued the statement against the backdrop of the suspicious packages that were discovered at Dubai airport the day before yesterday and was shipped by Qatar Airways from Sana'a to Dubai via Doha International Airport.

more:http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/latest-news/131014-qatar-airways-transit-countries-are-not-responsible-to-inspect-cargo.html