Explosives on U.S.-bound flight sparks terror probe
In this frame grab taken from WABC-TV video, passengers disembark an Emirates airliner into an awaiting bus at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Friday Oct. 29, 2010, after having been escorted from the Canadian border to New York City by two military fighter jets. U.S. officials said there is no known threat associated with the plane, but it was being escorted to JFK as a precautionary move. Authorities on Friday were investigating whether suspicious packages shipped aboard cargo planes from Yemen to the U.S. were part of a terrorist plot
New York Police Department officer stands at the scene of a suspected bomb contained in a UPS package at a bank in Brooklyn, New York, October 29, 2010. An international scare was triggered by a tip from an allied security source that two suspicious packages feared to be bombs had been shipped from Yemen.JESSICA RINALDI
Emergency personnel work near a grounded UPS cargo jet as the plane is searched by law enforcement officials at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 29, 2010. Two suspicious packages being flown from Yemen to the United States were found in Britain and Dubai on Friday after a tip prompted authorities to search cargo planes on both sides of the Atlantic. The packages spurred searches and investigations of jets arriving at New York's JFK Airport, Newark International Airport in New Jersey and the airport in Philadelphia. Authorities are investigating reports the parcels were bound for a synagogue and Jewish community center in ChicagoTIM SHAFFER
A forensic officer removes a package from a UPS container at East Midlands Airport in Castle Donington, central England October 29, 2010. A suspected bomb was found on Friday in Britain on board a cargo plane headed to the United States, where authorities were investigating other cargo flights for "potentially suspicious items" in New York, Philadelphia and other cities.DARREN STAPLES