Britain’s interior minister has said, a suspected member of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqap), the group believed to be behind a foiled parcel bomb attack last week, was arrested in the UK earlier this year
On Wednesday in a conference in London Theresa May told, that an “Aqap associate” had been arrested in the country on suspicion of planning attacks in Britain.She said:”He is alleged to have been planning a terrorist attack in this country. Threats such as this are likely to continue.”
On her comments come after the British government ordered a security review of all air freight after two parcel bombs originating in Yemen and bound for the US were found on cargo planes in the UK and Dubai on Friday.
She said that she believed that Aqap, a Yemen-based group, were behind the packages and that they had involved sophisticated bomb-making.
She said:”The explosive device was deeply concealed in the cartridge of a printer and connected to a hidden power source in sections of a mobile telephone.” she added:”The specifics of this attack – notably the type of device and how it was concealed – were new to us.”
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