The search is on for as many as 26 other packages that are allegedly part of the plot, a Yemeni official tells the Associated Press.
Meanwhile, via the Wall Street Journal, more details on the package found in Dubai yesterday:
Dubai police, in the statement Saturday, said that the package contained a computer printer, loaded with a toner cartridge that contained explosives. The explosives—including PETN, an explosive ingredient also used in the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt—were loaded in a professional way and connected via an electric circuit to a mobile-phone chip hidden inside the printer, according to the statement, posted on the United Arab Emirates’ state news-agency website.
Preliminary tests on the package found in England also indicated the substance in that package was PETN.
David Kurtz
David Kurtz is Managing Editor and Washington Bureau Chief of Talking Points Memo where he oversees the news operations of TPM and its sister sites.