british authorities are reporting that the mail bombs, or at least the mail bomb that they took off of a ups-browned cargo plane in britain was timed to explode over the united states. it was shipped from yemen to cologne, germany, from cologne to britain. it was in britain that authorities noticed something suspicious about that printer cartridge. they took it off, disruplt edit, essentially diskupt edit, essentially disrupted it, stopped the timing device. if it had not been loaded in great britain it would have been loaded on a u.s. cargo plain in all likelihood it would have exploded on board that plane in the air over the eastern united states. to a second report regarding al-qaida in the arabian peninsula. you might have heard they took credit for the explosion for the fire that downed a united parcel