{"id":22630,"date":"2010-10-30T21:23:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T21:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/explosives_could_have_downed_plane_british_say\/"},"modified":"2010-10-30T21:23:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T21:23:25","slug":"explosives_could_have_downed_plane_british_say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22630","title":{"rendered":"Explosives Could Have Downed Plane, British Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A package shipped from Yemen and bound for the United States on a cargo jet that was intercepted in Britain on Friday contained an explosive device powerful enough to bring down the plane, British authorities said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm the device was viable and could have exploded,\u201d\u009d British Home Secretary Theresa May said. \u201cThe target may have been an aircraft and had it detonated the aircraft could have been brought down.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>A day after two packages containing explosives addressed to synagogues in Chicago were discovered, one in Britain and the other in Dubai, setting off a broad terror alert, Janet Napolitano, the secretary of Homeland Security, said that the plot \u201chas the hallmarks of Al Qaeda.\u201d\u009d Officials on three continents, meanwhile, continued to search for other potentially dangerous packages shipped from Yemen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/31\/world\/31terror.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A package shipped from Yemen and bound for the United States on a cargo jet that was intercepted in Britain on Friday contained an explosive device powerful enough to bring down the plane, British authorities said on Saturday. \u201cI can<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22630\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,201,148,486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-terrorism","category-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}