{"id":28565,"date":"2012-02-19T14:55:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T21:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=28565"},"modified":"2012-02-19T14:55:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T21:55:55","slug":"how-safe-is-the-cargo-on-passenger-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/how-safe-is-the-cargo-on-passenger-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"How safe is the cargo on passenger flights?"},"content":{"rendered":"
This report is based on a one-year investigation by CNN into air cargo security in light of a thwarted plot by al Qaeda in October 2010 to blow up cargo jets over the United States.<\/p>\n
CNN’s Nic Robertson’s report “Deadly Cargo” airs on CNN Presents, Saturday and Sunday February 18, 19 at 8 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
The call came into the London Metropolitan Police bomb squad in the early hours of the morning. Isolated at the East Midlands airport in central England was a UPS package dispatched from Yemen, containing a laser printer that Saudi intelligence believed had been converted into a bomb.<\/p>\n