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Britain has said that parcel bombs sent from Yemen to US could have exploded anytime; where as the woman and her mother involved in sending the parcel bomb have been arrested in Yemen. Two packages containing explosives were intercepted on Friday, one hidden in a printer at a FedEx facility in Dubai, the other on a UPS cargo plane at a UK airport. British Home Secretary Theresa May said that bomb packed enough explosive to bring down the aircraft and the device was viable and could have exploded. The target may have been an aircraft, and had it detonated, the aircraft could have been brought down. The packages were addressed to synagogues in Chicago. British Prime Minister David Cameron said as an internationally coordinated investigation continues, no packages from Yemen will be allowed to cross his country's borders. We have immediately banned packages coming to or through Britain from the Yemen and we will be looking extremely carefully at any further steps we have to take. In the end, these terrorists think that our connectedness, our openness as modern countries is what makes us weak, they are wrong, it is a source of our strength, and we will use that strength, that determination, that power, that solidarity, to defeat them, he added. The US Department of Homeland Security said the bombs bear the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda or its affiliate Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which claimed responsibility for the failed attempt to blow up a US plane on Christmas Day, 2009.
