Interpol issues ‘orange notice’ amid terror warning
11/09/2010The global police agency Interpol has issued an alert to help forces in its member-states spot disguised bombs of the kind al-Qaeda terror group sent last week to the United States using airmail parcel couriers.
The so-called “orange notice” contains photographs and technical details of the latest bombs, which were discovered and made safe at airports in Dubai and Britain after an intelligence warning.
Al-Qaeda’s Yemen-based branch, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), has claimed responsibility for sending the sophisticated devices, in which the explosive Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate (PETN) was
packed into printer cartridges and attached to timers.
“The information contained in this Orange Notice will allow police services and other law enforcement agencies to take all appropriate measures to identify potentially lethal devices,” Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101109hed4.html
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